Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, NZ, 1st Jan, 1908

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...

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

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...

Short documentary released in 1907.

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...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

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

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

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

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

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...