This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

A documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising, written and performed by the duo Rubberbandits.
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

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...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
Farmers' wives from Amager selling flowers.
Street Trading. Fishermen's wives from Skovshoved sell their fish from the stalls at Gammel Strand. ...
From inside a tower, a man admires an artistic rendition of another tower.
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a ma...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

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

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