1922

Nanook of the North

7.105/290

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

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Nanook of the North

1894

Carmencita

5.265/68

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 Sta...

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Carmencita

1921

The History of the Civil War

3.3/3

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wra...

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The History of the Civil War

1888

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

5.9/121

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

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Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

2010

Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

0/0

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

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Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

2000

Silent Shakespeare

0/0

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

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Silent Shakespeare

2011

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

7.8/15

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...

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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

1919

How Animated Cartoons Are Made

6/3

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

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How Animated Cartoons Are Made

1895

Opening of the Kiel Canal

3.056/9

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

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Opening of the Kiel Canal

1915

Fight for the Dardanelles

0/0

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...

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Fight for the Dardanelles

2017

Voyeur

0/0

An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.

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Voyeur

1986

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

8/1

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

1971

India-Nepal

5/1

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleeting impressions of faces, landscapes, temples, peo...

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India-Nepal

2016

Around China with a Movie Camera

4.2/2

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...

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Around China with a Movie Camera

1905

Weaving Women

4.813/16

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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Weaving Women

1897

La Palestine en 1896

6.2/9

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

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La Palestine en 1896

1912

Hansa

0/0

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

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Hansa

1987

Landscape (for Manon)

6.3/9

A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.

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Landscape (for Manon)

1951

Matisse

5/2

Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their co...

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Matisse

1904

Renard et lapins

0/0

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Renard et lapins