The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70...

One of the first movies ever made.

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

Short silent film about some models of silk stockings.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...