Chaplin's Little Tramp defies physics, tickles your funny bone and warms your heart in his earliest short films including The Rink, The Pawnshop, The Vagabond, The Bank and Easy Street.... more
With the most expressive deadpan face imaginable, Buster dominated silent comedy with raw physicality and indomitable courage, performing and inventing impossible death defying stunts on locomotives,... more
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
The first on screen depiction of Dracula occurs in F. W. Murnaus horror classic Nosferatu! Real estate agent Jonathan Harker (Wangenheim), travels to Transylvania to visit a new client, Count Dracula... more
When a wrecked car results in a missing person, amateur detective - he's taken correspondence courses - starts on the case. A clue found at the scene leads him and his sidekicks to a remote mental... more
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin. In what would be considered the peak of Keaton's slapstick comedy powers, the legendary actor plays a hopeless newspaper cameraman in Manhattan who is... more
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Duetsch. Based on the Jewish folk legend that influenced the American film Frankenstein, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior out of clay to protect his... more
Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon. An Irish lass is caught between two men—a romantic poet and a handsome nobleman—but agrees to marry the nobleman after discovering the poet is living 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
Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Phol. This space adventure is a brilliant sci-fi follow-up to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Using cutting-edge astrophysics for 1929, this film about a band of explorers... more
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
Features: Full Frame, Manufactured on Demand, Mono Sound
Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning's lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a... more
Features: Limited Edition, Special Edition, O-Card Packaging, Dolby
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich. A completely restored version of the original sci-fi epic about a futuristic city and its mechanized and segregated society set in the year 2000. Includes... more
A special remastered gathering of "Alice" cartoons, a Disney creation from the mid-1920s that combined live action with animation and featured the clever and lively "Alice" superimposed into each... more
Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston. This is considered the "definitive" version of this silent masterpiece about a charming thief's love for a beautiful princess that leads him to change his... more
One hundred-forty seminal silent shorts produced by Thomas Edison's self-named movie studio between 1891-1918, restored and with new musical scores, are featured in this four-disc collection. Trace... more
The story of a shopgirl who uses her sex appeal to flummox the rich and wealthy. All the girls at Waltham's Department Store are obsessed with a story in Cosmopolitan about IT - an undefinable... more
In 1913, the Thomas Edison Company made talking pictures using a sound-on-cylinder system called The Kinetophone. These pioneering sound movies were shown in theatres for about a year, and featured... more