Kalabaka (The Secrets of Unknown Europe)

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...

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...

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.

By attempting to travel 2,960 km from southern Quebec to its northernmost point, by bike and skis, in the middle of winter, adventurers Samuel...

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

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...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

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

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature,...