Street Scene in unidentified European city

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

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

1888

Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into obl

2020

Les Misérables et Victor Hugo : au nom du peuple

The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, also recounts the tormented conversion of its auth

2020

Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe

2018

Orsay, les grandes métamorphoses

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the wo

2020

The Derby 1895

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the

1895

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the camera.

1899

The 'Roslin Castle' (Troopship) Leaving for South Africa

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers o

1899

Paris on the Seine

A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and historical engravings.

1941

Moments Like This Never Last

Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a

2021

Pomological

In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture ambitiously commissioned watercolour illustrations of over 3,000 fruit cultivars. In 2019, this c

2023

Fall 2

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

1970

An Execution by Hanging

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

1898

Panoramas of War

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desol

2018

Coldstream Guards Embarking on Troopship Gascon

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.

1899

L'Extrême Droite dans l'Histoire : Du général Boulanger à Jean-Marie Le Pen

2002

Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so

2019

Amashinga

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make AMASHI

2024

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war an

2019

Praise to the Man

With a divine answer to a humble prayer at age 14, Joseph Smith began to fulfill his inspired mission. He translated the ancient Book of Mormon and re

2005