Photographic Studies in Hypnosis: Abnormal Psychology

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

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years...

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films....

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

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

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

In 1980, Finland’s most famous hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, a.k.a Olliver Hawk, was put on trial. His mission in life had been to spread the...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....