Kalabaka (The Secrets of Unknown Europe)

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

Short documentary released in 1907.

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

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...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé...

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

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...

1920 travelogue.

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

“These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium of the founding of the Kingdom of...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with...