The Story of Petroleum

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

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand...

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

Short documentary released in 1907.

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

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

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.

Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The educational documentary is part of the Bruce...

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair becomes hairpieces. Last scene, an elegant Parisian...

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