Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon...

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

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

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev...

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...

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The film was conceived by its co-director...

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape....