From Elsinore shipyard launched the steamer AP Bemstorff sliding slowly out into the harbor.

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beaut...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...

A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary w...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...