A survey of the prolific director's early works. In Harakiri (Paul Biensfeldt, 1919/80 min.), the beautiful O-Take-San is chased by a vile monk who wishes to make her a geisha of the Forbidden... more
Richie Andrusco, Ricky Brewster. A seven-year-old boy takes refuge under the boardwalks of Coney Island after believing he has killed another boy with his cap gun. Includes audio commentary,... more
Freshly mastered from the finest international archival material available, this five-part series explores the genesis of cinema featuring more than 133 silent films. Includes Vol. 1: The Great Train... 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
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
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
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings. Deitrich is at her seductive best as the nightclub singer Lola-Lola who destroys a repressed schoolteacher. The movie marked the beginning of the legendary... more
Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthail. This epic story of two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction is a landmark in American motion pictures. Silent with original music score. Directed by D.W.... more
The groundbreaking years of the film industry are well represented in these archival treasures by three distinguished filmmakers from the Gaumont Film Company. The world's largest film archives have... more
Tatiana Samoilova, Vasili Lanovoy, Nikolai Gritsenko. Tolstoy's brilliant novel about a young aristocrat in a loveless marriage to a man 20 years her senior. She falls in love with the dashing Count... more
Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis. Sophocles' enduring tale of love and devotion receives a stately interpretation, preserving the original dialogue in the original Greek. In Greek with English subtitles.... more
Features: Black & White, Special Edition, Silent Movie
Erich von Stroheim, Francellia Billington, Sam deGrasse, Betty Compson. Von Stroheim wrote, starred in and directed the film Blind Husbands (1919/b&w-color tinted/93 min.), a complex tale about a man... more
Double Feature: "Foolish Wives"-An American diplomat's wife falls under the spell of a phony Russian Count. "The Man You Loved to Hate"-Blends revealing interviews, rare photographs and clips from... more
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish. A powerful and moving story set in 18th-century France during the time of the Revolution. Two women are separated when they leave their plague-ridden village and travel to... more
Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks. Orson Welles offers an introduction to four intertwining stories of prejudice and intolerance from the Babylonian age to modern times which come together to reach one... more
In Parisian Love (Clara Bow, Donald Keith. 1925/64 min.), Bow plays a conniving French seductress and dresses up as a street urchin, French maid, convent girl and society woman in this extremely... more
Hollywood's loss was Mexico's gain, as this glorious documentary will attest. Having failed to realize several projects in Hollywood, Russian film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein trekked to Mexico with... more
Steve Cochran, Alida Valli. Faced with the end of a seven-year affair with a married woman, a mechanic embarks on an aimless quest with their young daughter in tow. 1957/b&w/115... more
Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov. Sergei Eisenstein's directorial debut offers a riveting depiction of Russian factory workers during Czarist rule. When a worker who's unjustly accused of theft... more
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess. Seduced, impregnated and then cast aside, an abused small-town girl tries to escape the shame of having a fatherless child...until the abuser arrives in the town to... more
Two silent masterpieces both directed by remarkable young women. Hypocrites (Courtenay Foote. 1915/50 min.) spreads its moral message when a Christian minister creates a sculpture he calls "The... more
This entertaining documentary takes an interesting look at Edwin S. Porter, the man who began as Thomas Edison's mechanic but went on to be America's first filmmaker. Porter's contributions to moving... more
Decades before the term special effects was coined, audiences of the newborn cinema were witnessing spectacular screen illusions, courtesy of the medium's first master magician: Georges Melies. Such... more
In the 1920s, film studios around the world sought to capitalize on the publics curiosity about the newborn science of psychoanalysis. In 1925, Hans Neumann (of Ufa's Kulturfilm office) contacted... more
Emil Jannings, Karl Platen, Aud Egede Nissen. King Henry VIII of England's second wife, and her tragic mistreatment by the tyrannical king, are the subject of this gorgeous and opulent classic... more