Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthail. Still regarded by some as America's most controversial landmark film, D.W. Griffith's sweeping epic of two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction paints a... more
It might reasonably be contended that Humphrey Jennings is the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced. - Lindsay Anderson, Director These astonishing films show and explain essential news... more
In The Toll Gate (William S. Hart. Directed by Lambert Hillyer. 1920/73 min), a highwayman's gang is sold out by a traitor and ambushed during a robbery, and the leader of the gang seeks out revenge... more
Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthail. Director D.W. Griffith's sweeping epic of two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction paints a vivid picture of the War, Lincoln's assassination and the rise... more
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1913) James O'Neill, who was already famous for playing Edmont Dantes on the stage, adapted his play to bring the Alexandre Dumas novel to the screen. MONTE CRISTO (1929)... more
Bartolomeo Pagano, Lidia Quaranta. While the Second Punic War rages, a girl is separated from her parents. During her odyssey through ancient Rome, she encounters an erupting volcano, the barbaric... more
Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton. This epic underwater adventure based on the novel by Jules Verne features landmark special effects, including a terrifying battle with a giant octopus.... more
William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon. A man hunts outlaws who killed his brother across the Wild West, chasing them through the winding threads and dismal frontier towns of the 19th... more
Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks. A remastered and restored version of D.W. Griffith's sweeping epic that features four stories of prejudice and intolerance from the Babylonian age to modern times.... more
Theda Bara, Edward Jose. A married businessman travels to Europe and falls under the spell of an alluring but scheming "vamp" named Gilda. Theda Bara's stunning performance made her one of the silver... more
Six Feet Four (1919). Based on the novel of the same name by Jackson Gregory. On a stormy night a mail coach is robbed and suspicious falls on "Buck" Thornton, a big cowboy who is quick on the draw.... more
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Adolph Lestina. An American boy and a French girl risk their lives in the heart of World War I to find each other and keep one another safe. Directed by D.W. Griffith.... more
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess. Director D.W. Griffith's powerfully moving film about an abused young girl's love for an older Chinese man. Silent with original music score. 1919/colorized/90... more
Douglas Fairbanks plays a detective who goes undercover at a dude ranch to catch the man who killed his sister in one of his early stunt-filled features photographed by Victor Fleming (Gone With the... more
Mary Pickford gives another of her unforgettable performances as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith, a feisty mining camp girl who fall in love with a school teacher. When he's wrongly implicated in a murder,... more
A wealthy and carefree bachelor finds his life changed when he takes in the daughter of an ill friend. As guardian and ward grow closer they are targeted by a lecherous profiteer masquerading as a... more
Harry Carey, Duke Lee, Neva Gerber, Vester Pegg. An outlaw with a heart of gold flees from the law after a poker game ends in a shootout and tries to peacefully assimilate in a town called Rawhide.... more
Douglas Fairbanks, known more for his adventure films, pulls double duty in these two classic Westerns. A half-Native American man falls for a beautiful woman in a wealthy frontier town, but the... more
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Raymond Hatten. After a wealthy British women and her house staff are shipwrecked on a desert island, a hidden attraction to her butler blossoms and class lines... more
Joan the Woman (Cardinal Film Corporation, 1916) was Cecil B. DeMilles first great spectacle. In keeping with theatrical tradition, DeMille sought a more formal and stylized mode of acting from stars... more