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....

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

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

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon...

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

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...

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

A documentary on the history on mankind's attempts to reach high speeds. Starting with the invention of the bicycle, going on to sports cars, cars...

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at...

If hugs are tangible why am I hugging the void

A woman and her child are kidnapped by her lover and plans revenge on him.

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw...