Unser Hindenburg (1917)
Short about Field Marshal Paul v. Hindenburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday on 02.10.1917.
Top billed cast
Paul von HindenburgSelf
Erich LudendorffSelf
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Nanook of the North (1922)
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
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Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.
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Serpentine Dance (1902)
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda (1922)
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R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige (1904)
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Carmencita (1894)
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Fantastic Flowers (2025)
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