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.

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 day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goe...

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

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, ...

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produ...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...

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...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetogra...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...