The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Joan of Arc: God's Warrior

Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure -...

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the l...

Land Without Bread

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it...

Railway Station

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, m...

Night and Fog

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Water

A Tibetan woman collects water near her family's yak farm and brings it back home 80-pounds full, in a ritual that takes...

Spiders on a Web

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photog...

Grain Elevator

This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Ca...

Collecting Time

Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world...

Osudová Strela

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a...

Porn to Be Free

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography...

Girls Taking Time Checks

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the scr...

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and contin...

Prosa y verso de una identidad

A group of writers from Hidalgo get together to generate their works and create a community around literature.

Silencio

Sound progression of two opposite landscapes.

Steal This Film

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of th...

Cradle of Genius

Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution found...

The Man in Gray

The Man in Gray is a 1961 Italian short documentary film produced by Benedetto Benedetti. It was nominated for an Academ...

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman film...

The Four Troublesome Heads

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place....

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is...

The Kiss in the Tunnel

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through...

The Sprinkler Sprinkled

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose....

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons

New teacher Chihiro has been on the job for three months. She does her job with great enthusiasm, but she has a secret t...

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is...

Black Beauty

Black Beauty lives with Squire Gordon and his stable girl Jenny. Squire Gordon is forced to sell Black Beauty to a cruel...

Game of Cards

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves dri...

The Bewitched Inn

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happening...

The Dreyfus Affair

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in whic...

Washerwomen on the River

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Crane World

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Post No Bills

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of t...

Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'...

With Love

With Love, Poetry when deranged enough becomes music. Self-conflict acts as a catalyst to love. With you, for you.

Eye Myth

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colo...

A Trip to the Moon

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket pro...

Danse serpentine (Annabelle)

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dan...