04 Sep 1936
The Way to the Sea
A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.
Up to 8 stories high... 12,000 watts of sound... 750 horsepower...
A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.
Narrator (voice)
Self
Self
Self / Moonshiner
Self
Self
Self
Self / Moonshiner
TV Announcer
Self
Self
Sheriff
Sheriff
TV Control Room
Self - On-Screen Announcer
Self - On-Screen Announcer
Self - On-Screen Announcer
Track Announcer
Track Announcer
TV Announcer
04 Sep 1936
A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.
01 Jan 1986
High-speed film and time-lapse photography combined to create breathtaking images of the night sky and Halley's Comet in this astronomical short subject.
02 Apr 2001
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08 Aug 1900
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pioneers of the British film industry, G.A. Smith, this short film details spiders trapped in an enclosure, and despite the title, does not actually feature a web.
09 Feb 1934
City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academy Awards in 1935 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2007.
01 Jan 1937
Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.
31 Dec 1930
A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the event’s highly conservative approach. Despite its ad campaign roots, Richter's touch is not absent; The surviving version, aimed at a "bourgeois" Swiss public, presents decluttered, functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious "ancient" ways of living.
23 Mar 1902
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
17 Feb 2005
Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmountable challenges as they make their way along all 3,260 miles of the world's longest and deadliest river to become the first in history to complete a full descent of the Blue Nile from source to sea.
14 Sep 2003
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 feet underwater to explore the Azores, a constantly-erupting volcanic rift between Europe and North America.
01 Jan 1897
Lumière's documents life in Palestine.
22 Mar 1896
Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.
08 Nov 1896
Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.
06 Mar 1897
A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
31 May 1896
19th century carnival ride.
04 Mar 1900
People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.
01 Jan 1895
Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.
13 Jul 1897
The main market square in the heart of Brussels.
03 Nov 1896
Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse, rides it and begins to spin, slowly.
06 Sep 1896
A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.