Murnau, Borzage and Fox

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

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy...

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

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...

Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....