Movies

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

A phantom ride.