The Isle of Lost Ships

A likely lost film. The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. He gives the main woman in the group 24 hours to choose her mate from among the motley community.

Ships of the Night

In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.

Cranes and Ships

This film was shot in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in March 2022—during the first month of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which continues until today. It ponders the silences and small acts of resistance by anti-war individu

The Isle of Lost Ships

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros..

Treasures of the Sunken Ships

The Black Ships

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese Expedition 1852-1866 of Commodore Matthew Perry,” the film records the opening of th

My Love Ships Sailed Without You

Where No Ships Go

A storm in the family and a storm at sea trigger radical changes in the lives of two brothers. One discovers the fantastical world of childhood, while the other struggles to keep it.

Little Ships: The Miracle of Dunkirk

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which made the perilous cross-channel voyage, as 50 of them return to France.

Ships and Cathedrals

Perhaps what has already been lived is more important than what’s yet to be lived, Antonio thinks as he burns his father's belongings. Ships and Cathedrals tells of his encounter with Emilia and how he manages to break o

Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage

"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the Americas. Features interviews with scholars, oral histories and a dramatic recreation of the Middle

Down to the Sea in Ships

Being the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit Quaker community, and the dangerous adventures of an unwilling stowaway aboard one of the elder Morgan's harvest vessels.

Waiting for Ships

In a coastal town where not much happens residents pass the time on slot machines and wonder about the flow of container ships and what they might be carrying. It is the biggest container port in Britain, but how much d

Seawards the Great Ships

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an id

Troop Ships for the Philippines

The S.S. Australia departs from San Francisco Bay, carrying American soldiers to the Philippines.

Burning the Ships

Some human figures appear on celluloid, trapped by their own passions. They are part of a forgotten silent film. Nothing seems to save its protagonists from their tragic fate, except for the fragile filmic material they

The Tall Ships in Canada

Captures the highlights of the weekend in July of 2000 when 80 of the world's tall ships arrived in Halifax Harbour before the start of the race back across the Atlantic Ocean for a trans-Atlantic race.

Bridges, Trains and Ships

Made in 1977 for German public television, a rare look at Harun Farocki’s films for children. Harun Farocki's twin daughters, Lara and Anna were also shown in this documentary.

SHIPS - a dance film

Our bonds and connections to one another. What is our suffering when confronted with others suffering? This film aims, through movement, to explore that and our bonds of friendship.

Ships That Pass in the Night

In Switzerland an architect and a suffragist schoolteacher fall in love at a TB sanatorium.