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.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

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

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...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.

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

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

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

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

A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary w...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...
“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - th...