The Pulse of the Big City

Johann Lurf‘s film Endeavour slides between documentary, avant-garde film, and science-fiction. This highly singular combination of materials...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.

Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

A short news reel documentary about poster art.

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

First it's paint bombs, followed hard by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young...

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a...