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Bottom of the World, The
The true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's dramatic exploratory journey to Antarctica aboard the Endurance, during which the ship and all aboard became icebound. ...
Years: 1920-05-02

Nanook of the North
Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history. ...
Years: 1922-06-11

Kinoglaz
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experiment ...
Years: 1924-10-31

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
This documentary follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, a poor nomadic tribe in Iran, as they herd their livestock up snow-covered mountain passes--barefoot--to get to the grazing lands on the other side of the mountains before their animals die from hunger. ...
Years: 2008-01-07

Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night. more ...
Years: 1927-09-23

Padenie dinastii Romanovykh
Using archival news footage, Esfir Shub pieces together a chronology of Russia, from 1913 to 1917. She introduces leaders of the Duma, gentry and peasants, soldiers and sailors, the bourgeoisie, and the Czar. In May of 1913, Europe's crowned heads come to Petrograd to celebrate 300 years of Romanov rule even as most of them prepare for war. As war ...
Years: 2008-01-07

Chelovek s kino-apparatom
A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness. more ...
Years: 1929-05-12

Gow the Killer
Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, and record the lives of the various natives they encounter there. ...
Years: 2008-01-07

Tri pesni o Lenine
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them. ...
Years: 1934-11-06

Seabiscuit: The Lost Documentary
Original Documentary of the horse Seabiscuit, made in 1939 by the horse's owner Charles Howard. more ...
Years: 2008-01-07

Report from the Aleutians
A official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island Kiska. The movie includes footage from a bombing raid over Kiska with B-17 and B-24 bombers. ...
Years: 1943-07-30

Kon-Tiki
A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahls. more ...
Years: 1950-01-13