Wild Beasts of Borneo
A film directed by , released in 1925.
Genre Documentary
The Pottery Maker
A little girl watches the craftsman at work while inter-titles explain the particulars of pottery-making.
The Amundsen Polar Flight
A film directed by , released in 1925.
Balto’s Race to Nome
A Colin Campbell film directed by , released in 1925.
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better pastures.
The Gorilla Hunt
Mr. Burbridge’s party slew three giant gorillas, one weighing something like 450 pounds. Two of these were sent to the Belgian Government and one to the Smithsonian Institution. The explorer also brought away with him three young gorillas, one of…
The Passaic Textile Strike
In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and violently opposed by mill owners and police…
Moana
Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions,…
Maya the Bee
Maya the Bee is a dramatised documentary film displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on the book by Waldemar Bonsels, he also assisted himself in cinematography, along with A.O. Weitzenberg. The film was restored…
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.
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