With Reindeer and Sled in Inka Länta’s Winterland

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...

Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

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

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...

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...

Short documentary released in 1907.

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

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

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

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