Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
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...
Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a...
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was p...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on ...
An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).
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 ...
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging it...
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames ...
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during...
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Th...