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...

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 tour of Istanbul in all its glory. All the sights, such as the Hagia Sophia, but also the small de...

A documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising, written and performed by the duo Rubberbandits.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...
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 film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

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

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.
Farmers' wives from Amager selling flowers.
Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims aro...

Newly restored and assembled by the International Olympic Committee - the earliest comprehensive mov...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...