Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Fall 2

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

Alpine Train at Christmas

Climb aboard the illustrious Bernina Express for a festive ride through spectacular Alpine landscapes, taking in snow-covered peaks, architectural wonders, and majestic glaciers.

Storstrømsbroen

A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge.

Angel of Nanjing

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For the past 11 years Chen Si has been patrolling this bridge, looking to provide aid for those who've gone there to end their lives. Incredibly, he has saved over 300 people since he began - nearly one every two weeks.

Dans les coulisses du métro de Paris

Gå på vatten

An often humorous documentary about the building of the Öresund bridge, connecting Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden. We meet the people who work on production of the bridge, as well as opponents to the idea of such a bridge.

TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records

The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.

Aces & Knaves

Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.

Abegweit

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history.

Devrimci Gençlik Köprüsü

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to its destiny, in Hakkari, Zap River was taking lives since there were no passage on it.

Paris sur Seine

A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and historical engravings.

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1

The Battle of Arnhem, fought in the early autumn of 1944, remains without a doubt the most hotly debated battle of the North West European Campaign, both then and now. From its inception in the sixteen cancelled airborne operations during August, we will chart the problems, many of which were ignored by men desperate to get into battle, the compromises and mistakes that pitched lightly armed and ill equipped paratroopers and glider infantry into an unequal struggle against an SS panzer troops. We follow the eight mile route that 2 Para took to reach the bridge at Arnhem, slipping through the German defences.In Part 2, a separate film we look at their epic battle.

El puente

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

Street Scene in unidentified European city

An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large buildings are visible, including a domed building. The location is unconfirmed.

Les allumés du pont Jacques-Cartier

The story behind the technical prowess deployed to light up the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

Last Words: The Battle for Arnhem Bridge

The Survivors of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem tell their stories of the brutal and exhausting conflict.

Opening of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge

Extraordinary pictures of an accident with a royal audience at Middlesbroughs magnificent Transporter Bridge.

Maillarts Brücken

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.