Transport of a Turret by a Team of 60 Horses

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

1909

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev

1896

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

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 a

1927

The Horse with the Human Mind

This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works with her trainer.

1946

One Second in Montreal

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

1969

Crabs and Shrimp

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser

1930

How Animated Cartoons Are Made

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

1919

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

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

2011

Train Time

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

1952

Weaving Women

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

1905

Winged Migration

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of

2001

Africa's Wild West

Some 150 wild horses live in an expanse of desert, grassland and rock along Namibia’s west coast - a ‘Forbidden Zone’ rife with ghost towns.

2015

Seven More Stations

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

1948

Opening of the Kiel Canal

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

1895

Fight for the Dardanelles

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps

1915

So Clever Are German Spies

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

1914

The Station

A day in the life of a train station.

1952

The Percheron

This documentary is a true tribute to the Percheron, the superb draft horse. We talk about its origins, its characteristic traits, its performance in

1946

Time Stood Still

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of C

1956

Around China with a Movie Camera

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th

2016