Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims around in the harbor, and he is later seen together with journalist Anker Kirkeby.

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...

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
A documentary short film showing the flying of an airplane by the famous French pilot Chevillard.
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9...

In 1902, Emery and Ellsworth Kolb opened a studio in the Grand Canyon and began making photographs o...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

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

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...