Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.

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

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

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

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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

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

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental mus...

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

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

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

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beaut...

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

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