An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
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...
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A brief portrait of famous and brave bullfighter Manuel Benítez el Corbobés; an account on still pho...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, ...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only lig...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...
Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...