Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Sperduti nel buio

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following th...

Censored!

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

Brush of Baphomet

A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.

Nanook of the North

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

Récréation à la Martinière

Students in Lyon.

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...

Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

Railway Station

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

Silent Britain

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevalua...

Little Monsters 3D

Little Monsters presents some of the animal kingdom’s strangest survival strategies: poison dart frogs, chameleons, pray...

Europa Radio

Commissioned by Philips, Europa Radio celebrates the company’s experimental PCJJ shortwave radio station in Eindhoven th...

Sacred Site

High-speed film and time-lapse photography combined to create breathtaking images of the night sky and Halley's Comet in...

La remise des décorations

The Epic of Everest

The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the...

The Way to the Sea

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featurin...

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith...

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen co...

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...

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

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