Everyday wintertime life of Sámi reindeer herder Inka Länta and her family, mingling authentic and fictionalized takes.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

The fate of a culture lies on the shoulders of few determined individuals.

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...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

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...
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, o...

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...