Lost film from 1888, directed by William Friese-Greene.
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a ...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

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

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

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
Short film about an express steamer
From inside a tower, a man admires an artistic rendition of another tower.
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a ma...

In 1902, Emery and Ellsworth Kolb opened a studio in the Grand Canyon and began making photographs o...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...
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...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...