Mineral El Teniente(1919)

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.

How the Telephone Talks(en)

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.

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Among Wild Birds(xx)

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

Nanook of the North(en)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Opa sein Berlin(de)

Rare documentary footage from around 1900 depicts the mood of life in Berlin at the turn of the century.

I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head(en)

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with slow steps, in still images, to two villages he created. Fathy's historically grounded, forward-looking designs prompt us to reflect on the past as well as contemplate new solutions for the future.

Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm(de)

The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei(de)

A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.

Dokumente zur Lebensweise: Wohnungsprobleme 1982/83 - Dokument I(de)

A film about problems in providing the population with housing that meets their needs. Affected citizens and representatives of the responsible state institutions give their views.

Das Buch der Deutschen(de)

The film shows the manufacture of a luxury edition of "Mein Kampf" on real parchment, handwritten.

Schutzwall(de)

The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The necessity of erecting the border is illustrated by comparing the situation in 1939 and the situation in the summer of 1961 with regard to the "threat of intervention" by the Western powers. Berlin people and GDR border guards are interviewed.

Die Seehunde(de)

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.

Besuch des Zaren auf der russischen Botschaft(de)

The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

Circuito de São Gonçalo(pt)

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

Série 7 (Éclatements de bulles de savon)(fr)

Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion."

Felling of Hibson Road Brick Works Chimney in Nelson(en)

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and salute the camera.

The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam(it)

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understandable focus on Italian athletes, but it is the first Olympic documentary that describes the techniques of certain events.

A Day with the Gipsies(en)

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst Operation(es)

Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos Aires.