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...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

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

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

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

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

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

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

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

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its in...

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imag...
Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

At the beginning of Sumadijska street in the vicinity of Slavija Square on the 11th August 1913, the...