Admiral Cigarette

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

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

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.

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

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.

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.

The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

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 the...

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of...