The Story of Petroleum

Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

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

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...

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

Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

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...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

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