Days of Thrills and Laughter

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...

A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French com...

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

“Getting to the top matters,” or so says veteran alpinist Mark Richey as he prepares to climb Saser...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

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

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

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleet...

Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, sev...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large...

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine wit...

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janak...

A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.

A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the local...

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He...

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two wei...