Vid ett tågrån tvingas banditerna skjuta en resenär. Sheriffen och hans män ger sig ut efter dem.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Filmen utspelar sig i den amerikanska södern och första halvan av filmen skildrar det amerikanska inbördeskriget. Tonvikten på samhörigheten mellan det vita nord och syd inom en nation är tydlig. Filmens andra halva skildrar tiden efter krigsslutet, då slaveriet upphör och södern invaderas av svarta och personer av blandat afrikanskt och europeiskt ursprung. De vita huvudpersonerna är förtvivlade, men en av dem får plötsligt inspiration när han ser små barn leka med lakan – han grundar Ku Klux Klan. Nationens födelse är kontroversiell, öppet rasistisk men även en oerhört inflytelserik stumfilm.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

En man berättar en historia om sin bäste vän och dennes fästmö, vars lycka krossas av Dr Caligari och somnambulisten Cesare. Ett av den tyska expressionismens viktigaste verk.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.

En man skär upp en kvinnas öga. Senare uppvaktas samma kvinna av en annan man. Då hon ratar honom börjar myror krypa ut ur ett hål i hans hand. I en serie besynnerliga bilder möts det banala och det bisarra. En surrealistisk kortfilm som Luis Buñuel gjorde tillsammans med Salvador Dalí.

Harold Lloyd spelar expediten som anordnar en klättringstävling utanpå ett hus. Omständigheterna gör dock att han själv måste klättra. Filmen innehåller en av de mest kända scenerna från stumfilmstiden: Harold Lloyd som hänger i visarna på en stor klocka på utsidan av en skyskrapa.

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

Ingenting är som det verkar och dessutom faller hela kvarter ihop på söndagarna i denna surrealistiska klassiker som Buñuel skrev tillsammans med Salvador Dali.

När en stolt adelsman vägrar att kyssa den despotiske kung Jakob II:s hand år 1690 blir han grymt avrättad, och hans son Gwynplaine kirurgiskt vanställd, med ett evigt leende i ansiktet.

En man får stora problem när han söker sina rötter.

När änkan Cary blir kär i sin yngre trädgårdsmästare blir hon utsatt för en massa elakt skvaller från invånarna i New England. Även hennes egna barn reagerar och försöker tvinga sin mor att gifta sig med en mer respektabel man.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.