Momentum

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

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 the firs...

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

Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.

The Canadian Coast Range is a humbling place. The range dwarfs both exceptionally large human beings and egos with its foreboding size. Norseman Produ...

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 feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the Can...

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

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 tal...

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 activis...

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