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 appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...
A tour of Istanbul in all its glory. All the sights, such as the Hagia Sophia, but also the small de...

"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and movin...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Mostly dark, rejecting images which are repeated. A stone wall, the chamber of a revolver which is, ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, c...
On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separ...

Journey across Morocco, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Patagonia, Texas and British Columbia, to meet vaq...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

220 million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of repti...
A retrospective about the world of the mineral, following different narrative lines, centered on ho...

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he ...