Brighton Street Scene

Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

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...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

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

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

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.

One of the first movies ever made.

The Baselstrasse is a street in Lucerne. People call it "Rue de Blamage" – it's a noisy street tucked into a narrow space between a hill and a train t...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

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