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

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...

Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

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

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

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

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...

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

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

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

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