William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to be shown to public audiences and the press.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...
A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...
The film depicts one of the great hunts the South Sea Islanders. Come schools of fish in one of the ...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.
Short silent film.