This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was p...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
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...
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...