Collection no. #66466 minMan with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov
66 min · Subtitles: English
A cameraman follows a city's changing rhythms from the quiet of early morning to work, travel and recreation. Factories, streets and leisure spaces…
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59 films in this collection
59 films
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Collection no. #68567 minChang
Merian C. Cooper
67 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Kru and his family work to keep a small farm alive at the edge of the forest in northern Thailand. Crops, livestock and their home are vulnerable to…
Collection no. #68974 minA Sixth Part of the World
Dziga Vertov
74 min · Subtitles: English
People, landscapes and industries from across the Soviet Union are assembled into a portrait of work and exchange. Farming, trade and the movement of…
Collection no. #70678 minKino-Eye
Dziga Vertov
78 min · Subtitles: English
Young Pioneers compare prices, organize camp life and promote cooperative shopping, while the camera explores markets, village celebrations and…
Collection no. #71078 minNanook of the North
Robert J. Flaherty
78 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
An Inuk man and his family travel through the Canadian Arctic, hunting, trading and building shelter. The film concentrates on the practical demands…
Collection no. #77972 minThe Battle of the Somme
Geoffrey Malins
72 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
British soldiers prepare for the Somme offensive, moving supplies, waiting in trenches and serving the artillery before the attack. The camera also…
Collection no. #8941 minMacintyre's X-Ray Film
John Macintyre
1 min · Subtitles: English
X-ray images reveal bodily structures normally hidden from view, including a frog's joint and movements inside an adult body. A sequence of exposures…
Collection no. #94589 minMoana
Robert J. Flaherty
89 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A young Samoan man and the people around him gather food, fish, prepare materials and take part in the routines of village life. These activities…
Collection no. #9567 minMoscow Clad in Snow
Georges Meyer
7 min · Subtitles: English
Snow changes the appearance and movement of Moscow as the camera visits streets, markets, riverside views and a public park. Workers, shoppers and…
Collection no. #111182 minWith Byrd at the South Pole
Julian Johnson
82 min · English
Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition is followed from its Little America base toward the South Pole. Expedition footage presents the work and…
Collection no. #13992 minSua Santità papa Leone XIII
William Kennedy Dickson
2 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
Pope Leo XIII appears in the Vatican gardens and gives his blessing to the camera. Three views record the elderly pontiff in an early encounter…
Collection no. #1565105 minHäxan
Benjamin Christensen
105 min · Subtitles: English
Illustrations, miniature models and staged episodes lead into a disturbing journey through beliefs about witchcraft. An accusation against an elderly…
Collection no. #83049 minSalt for Svaneti
Mikhail Kalatozov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
In an isolated mountain community in Svanetia, the camera follows work, animals, ceremonies and the struggle to obtain salt. The landscape shapes…
Collection no. #86177 minTurksib
Victor A. Turin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
Surveyors, laborers and machines work toward a railway joining the economic regions of Turkestan and Siberia. The film contrasts the difficulty of…
Collection no. #88462 minMechanics of the Brain
Vsevolod Pudovkin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Experiments with animals and observations of human behavior introduce the viewer to reflexes and learned responses. Pudovkin organizes scientific…
Collection no. #8881 minPlaying Cards
Georges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Three men gather at a garden table, with cards and a newspaper providing the afternoon's occupations. Drinks arrive, attention shifts from the game…
Collection no. #92322 minÀ propos de Nice
Jean Vigo
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Nice appears through work, leisure, street activity and carnival spectacle. Wealthy visitors relaxing along the promenade are set beside the labor…
Collection no. #96766 minAmazon: Longest River in the World
Silvino Santos
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A journey through the Amazon presents river transport, forest life, Indigenous communities and the extraction of regional resources. Work with…