Egyptian Fakir with Dancing Monkey

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

A newly discovered film showing Tamara Karsavina dancing Mikhail Fokine’s ‘La Danse du Flambeau’ (‘The Torch Dance’)....

Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Sighet, a town from which a thousand Jews were deported to the ovens of Auschwitz, returns, unknown and unseen, a silent...

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds...

This short film portrays a group of gay teens in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their worldviews. The testimonies of 10 young people between 16 and 18 call...