The Strength and Agility of Insects

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

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

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...

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

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

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

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...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the...

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...