This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
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...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

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

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...

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

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...

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...

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....