Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, NZ, 1st Jan, 1908

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated...

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

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