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

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working...

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

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

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

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...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...

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....

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films...

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to...

A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.

Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

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

A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.