From outer space to inner space—Ray and Charles Eames’s classic 1977 short about the powers of magnification by ten, from the end of the universe…

The megacity of 100 years ago, operating at a different speed, viewed by a motionless camera positioned at discrete distances from its bustling life. These…

Jean Painlevé was a great scientific filmmaker. He would often make two versions of a film—the hardcore science versions for research and the delightful, often…

The great documentarian Humphrey Jennings’s short, pungent history of England was commissioned for the mid-century Festival of Britain and gives a lovely overview of the…

This program duplicates the very first show of films by the Lumière brothers, at the birth of cinema. (Before it was just another item on…