The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

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

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius...

Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The...

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

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

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 conditions...

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

King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.

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...

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

Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the...