The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

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...

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 story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

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

Set in Spanish colonial Philippines. Pedro is tasked to wed a wife whilst his activist friend is considering him to join the revolution. Through a...

The story of the life and passion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.