Murnau, Borzage and Fox

The meeting point between two comunication media: A letter written in 1929 -hidden inside the adobe walls of an old country house - and the shooting...

A meditation on an Alaskan autumn.

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.

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom. How, in the space of a few years, did this...

The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film...

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.

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.

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