After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

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.

Denne storfilm om den amerikanske borgerkrig raffinerede og revolutionerede filmkunsten: Her krydsklippes mellem op til fire handlingstråde, arbejdes med crescendo-klipning og dramatisk klimaks. D.W. Griffith fik for filmen prædikatet ’Hollywood-filmens fader’ – for en heroisk besyngelse af Ku Klux Klan, komplet med en vakkelvorn teori om kostumernes udspring!

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.

Filmen handler om den dæmoniske teltholder Dr. Caligari, der fremviser søvngængeren Cesare på markedspladser, og om, hvordan det afsløres, at han får Cesare til at myrde for sig. Dr. Caligari blev det igangsættende hovedværk i den tyske filmekspressionisme med sit tyran-tema og sine malede kulisser, grotesk forvrængede scenerier og stærkt stiliserede spil.

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.

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

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.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Det er historien om den stakkels Gwynplaine, der i 1700-tallets England bliver vansiret af sin henrettede fars fjender, så han nu bærer et permanent, grotesk smil på ansigtet. Han kæmper sig gemmen en hård tilværelse, konstant bevidst om, hvor frygtindgydende han ser ud. Men så en dag byder livet alligevel på en snert af håb.

20-årige Willie McKay er vokset op i New York uden forbindelse til sit fødested i Kentucky. Da han modtager et brev om, at han har arvet sin fars ejendom, beslutter han sig for at tage det første og bedste tog for at besøge sin oprindelige hjemby. På toget møder han en yderst tiltalende kvinde: Virginia Canfield. Hvad de to ikke kender til, er deres slægters familiefejde, og at Canfields hader McKays overalt på jorden.

Criterion præsenterer her en samfundsrevsende Hollywood-tåreperser med Jane Wyman som den frustrerede, rige enke og Rock Hudson som den lækre gartner, der elsker hende. Det er Douglas Sirks rørende, men også anklagende beskrivelse af 1950'ernes provinsielle Amerika. Med mange filmiske virkemidler viser han det kvindelige familieoverhoveds ensomhed og isolation, fanget som hun er af sine børns snobberi og country club-vennernes sladder.

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.