Unser Hindenburg

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...

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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