Photographic Studies in Hypnosis: Abnormal Psychology

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...

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.

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

It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzzling...

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years ag...

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.

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 a...