A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated process, many layers and sections are carefully applied. He goes over the side. Some men row out to what looks like a wrecked barge and set dynamite. Then the diver returns and now laughs and acknowledges the camera. The other men, now safely away, blow up the barge.

An educational short film about correct speaking methods.
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...

From the banks of the Bahamas to the seas of Argentina, we go underwater to meet dolphins. Two scien...
A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important...

A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water co...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

A look at the great wolf debate with comments and views from people on both sides. It also contains ...

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images e...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinemat...

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...