

Finlandia(1922)
A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature, sports, military, agriculture and capital of Finland.

Movie: Finlandia
Top 1 Billed Cast
Narrator
Video Trailer Finlandia
Similar Movies
From 3 to 22(sh)
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk(en)
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
World's Greatest Logging Site(fi)
A documentary short on logging during winter season.

Film-Tract n° 1968(fr)
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min

Days of Thrills and Laughter(en)
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

How Animated Cartoons Are Made(en)
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic(de)
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 failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(de)
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 at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Two Forces(fi)
Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

The Defilee of Army Orchestra, Carriages and Horsemen(mk)
Early Balkan footage.
Lumiere's First Picture Shows(en)
An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

Ukonvaaja(fi)
Ukonvaaja - The Hammer of Ukko - is a documentary film that focuses on ancient Finnish folklore and mythology.
Women of the Ghetto Bathing(en)
The subject is a group of women bathing in a public swimming pool. The camera was placed on the edge of the pool and the full extent of the film shows the women in the pool. Only the heads and shoulders of most of the women are visible but it is possible to see they are wearing rented bathing attire.

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

Carmencita(xx)
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 States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.
Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest(en)
Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.

Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs(en)
A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.
Ice Hockey World Championship Jubilee in Tampere(fi)
The Tampere-based VipVision production company recorded the scenes of jubilation at the Tampere Central Square in the spring of 1995 when the Finnish national ice hockey team celebrated after winning the World Championships. The fight song Den glider in rings out more than once, and Pate Mustajärvi works the crowd into a singing frenzy.