The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Sprængning af Træer i Dyrehaven

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

1907

Hansa

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

1912

Hunting the Panther

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

1909

Dr. Cook at Copenhagen

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set

1909

Girls Taking Time Checks

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

1904

Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment

1904

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tight

1904

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

Landscape (for Manon)

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

1987

The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is capture

1915

Galileo Galilei

1909

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

1916

Into the Silver Ether

New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own.

2020

Cabiria

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla,

1914

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

Princess Clementina

King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.

1911

Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

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

2010

Monica in the South Seas

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family wi

2023

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