Archiving Ireland

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

LA CASA DELLE VEDOVE portrays a group of widows who, he thinks, lived in a constant ‘dialogue‘ with death. In the house where they all...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern...

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the...

From the generation that lived through rationing in Britain, Dorothy Bradberry learned not to let anything go to waste - not a second nor any object.

The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could...

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at...

The filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and...