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Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in ...

Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of ...

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; ...

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to ...

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: ...

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in ...

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical ...

Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled ...

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of ...

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience ...

Using a specially designed transparent ‘canvas’ to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with ...

This Warner Bros. vignette features short snippets about well known people. It includes presidential candidate Warren Harding and his front porch ...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.

Part of Disney’s True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.

Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, ...

A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony.

From amazing shrines to the modern metropolis. India in the 1950’s – in color – by the photographer Claude Renoir.

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953.

The U.S. Signal Corps construct a huge airbase in Thule, Greenland.

Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers ...

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay ...

A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with ...

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild ...

Stanley Kubrick’s first color film, commissioned by the Seafarers International Union to promote the benefits of union membership. Shot inside ...

The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. ...