This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particular...
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compil...
Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pil...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
Documentary-drama recounting the Martian War of 1913–1917. Europe was on tenterhooks in the 2nd deca...
Early Balkan footage.
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.