Negro Street Dancers

Smith's Army Life

February 1928 •English

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Mrs. Pussy Loves Animals

November 1911 •French

Each time Mrs Babylas sees an animal, she just can't help herself bring it back home.

Johnny Express

May 2014 •Korean

In the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not fully understand.

Ce qui me meut

May 1989 •French

The life of Etienne-Jules Marey, the 19th century pioneer of photography and cinema, famous for studying animal and human locomotion.

Zapata's Gang

February 1914 •German

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

La Guerre des Romands

December 2011 •French

L'Âge d'or

November 1930 •French

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Glasmästarna

January 1986 •

Silent about two clumsy glaziers.

Railway Station

January 1980 •Polish

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

The Magic Glass

June 1914 •English

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

Nanook of the North

June 1922 •English

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 subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Vigário Sport Club

May 1927 •Portuguese

An ironic comedy to the sports world about the corrupt gears of football. As goalkeeper, figure a dwarf...

Rita Ou Rito?

July 1927 •Portuguese

Peixe-de-Espada (literally, sword-fish), a retired Army colonel, his wife and nubile daughter are spending their holidays at the Palace Hotel, in the company of a lady doctor, Doctor Pilulas (literally, pills). He tells tall-tales of his African adventures, and she finds ways to promote the excellency of the pills of her own fabrication. To spend some time with Gabriela, his girlfriend, Rito appears disguised as a woman, pretending to be the new post-office operator. Desguises will come and go, and all ends well after a turmoil of twisted plots.

Sherlock Jr.

April 1924 •English

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

November 2002 •Spanish

Two Old Tars

October 1913 •English

Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.

Live Your Life Smiling

February 1921 •Swedish

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

Pony Place

September 2013 •Dutch

Grandmother Koba has to take care of her grandchild Emma's digital horse farm.

Along Came Auntie

July 1926 •English

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

Carmencita

March 1894 •

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.