• The return of Martin Guerre (1982)
• Molders of Troy (1979) --Women of summer (1986)
• Universal Newsreel selections [from the National Archives]
• See it now; report on Senator Joseph McCarthy
• CBS evening news (December 31, 1979); response to Edward Kennedy's comments on the Shah of Iran
• The birth of a race (1918)
• The plow that broke the plains (1936)
• "The daisy spot"; Johnson for president, 1964
• Für uns (1937) [from the Bundesarchiv, Coblenz, West Germany]
• Life of an American fireman (1902)
• A corner in wheat (1909)

Demonstrates how moving images can be studied within the larger framework of traditional historical methodology.

John Henrik Clarke discusses the history of Afro-Americans, placing it within the context of the history of Africa and Africans and their relationship with non-African civilizations such as Greek, Roman, European, Christian, and Islamic.

Based on photographs taken in 1897 by polar explorers Nils Strindberg and Salomon Andrée, who were marooned on an ice floe, the film explores the limitations of images and other forms of records as a means of knowing the past.