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...

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

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

A shy teen wants to ask out a girl on a date - but how can he know what she'd like to do, or what kind of activity would be best suited for getting...

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the...

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm...

Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Reel 2 shows how pipe is laid and cleaned. One...

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...

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

The first travelling shot.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just...

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel...

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the...