Panorama of Eiffel Tower

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.

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...

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...

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this...

107.9 The End was an innovative radio station in the Alt-Rock days of the 90s in Cleveland, Ohio. After the telecommunications act of 1996 however, th...

The tumultuous history of the Louvre Museum, founded in 1793, and its fabulous art collections, an immortal testimony to the destiny of France and all...

A day in the life of a train station.

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the bidding...

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...

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

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

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...

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...

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.