Santos-Dumont Hydroplane

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

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

Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

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. Th...

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

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

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of C...

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

A day in the life of a train station.

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 maps...

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.