Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers of troops on board wave back to loved ones and the crowd including thr 2nd Battaliion West Yorkshires. Date: 20th October 1899.
Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s int...
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating yo...
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...
An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field ...
Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.
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New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigat...
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered t...
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturis...
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As t...
Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor ...
An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the ...
A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of t...