Hyde Park Corner (also known as Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses) depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in London. It is claimed to be the first film set in London, as well as the first to be filmed on celluloid. It is currently considered a partially lost film, with only 6 possible film frames preserved as part of the Jonathan Silent Film Collection.
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 ...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as...
Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along t...
30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by
Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activit...
The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the int...
Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in b...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.
With a divine answer to a humble prayer at age 14, Joseph Smith began to fulfill his inspired missio...
Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and m...
Journey across India, a breath taking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs and traditions. C...
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...
The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Ca...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As t...
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigat...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...