1965

Tonto-tour

0/0

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

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Tonto-tour

1966

Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke)

6/6

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

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Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke)

1958

Sonnenfinsternis

0/0

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

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Sonnenfinsternis

2015

Speechless: The Polar Realm

7/3

Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a vi...

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Speechless: The Polar Realm

1987

Landscape (for Manon)

6.3/9

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

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Landscape (for Manon)

1932

Greenland, 1932

0/0

Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif...

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Greenland, 1932

2000

Silent Shakespeare

0/0

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

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Silent Shakespeare

1919

How Animated Cartoons Are Made

6/3

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

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How Animated Cartoons Are Made

1986

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

8/1

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

1905

Weaving Women

4.813/16

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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Weaving Women

1951

Matisse

5/2

Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their co...

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Matisse

2016

Around China with a Movie Camera

4.2/2

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...

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Around China with a Movie Camera

1895

Opening of the Kiel Canal

3.056/9

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

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Opening of the Kiel Canal

1915

Fight for the Dardanelles

0/0

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...

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Fight for the Dardanelles

2011

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

7.8/15

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...

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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

1979

New York Portrait, Chapter I

7/6

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to...

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New York Portrait, Chapter I

1896

Little Egypt

2.3/3

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

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Little Egypt

1905

Grandma Despina

4.737/19

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded we...

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Grandma Despina

1912

Hansa

0/0

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

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Hansa

1896

No Jardim

4.5/4

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers...

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No Jardim