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

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

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

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beaut...

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

A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary w...

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

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getti...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imag...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German...

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...