Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Set in Spanish colonial Philippines. Pedro is tasked to wed a wife whilst his activist friend is con...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, p...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p...
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled ...
The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an i...
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artis...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...
Short about Field Marshal Paul v. Hindenburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday on 02.10.1917.
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...