Documentary Movies
Häxan (1922)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle…
Nanook of the North (1922)
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada’s northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful…
Manhatta (1921)
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a…
Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
A Trip through Berlin (1910)
Actuality scenes of Berlin circa 1910.
Scene in Chinatown (1900)
his film was shot in an alley of San Francisco’s Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to the far street), the…
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
A man (Thomas Edison’s assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion picture to be copyrighted…