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...

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...

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

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

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom. How, in the space of a few years, did this...

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

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

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

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

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...

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