A reporter travelling in the Balkans is trying to gain a deeper understanding of the region, which is a melting pot of cultures, languages and religions.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another ...

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

High up in the Northern California mountains there is a place, where not too many get to visit. Its ...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
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...
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photograph...
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

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

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...