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
Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Dolores Costello. A young boy finds his life changed when he leaves the streets of New York to become an English lord. Fully restored and remastered in high... 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
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
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
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
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
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
As artistically brilliant as it is gleefully perverse, Foolish Wives is Erich von Stroheim's epic-scale account of an American diplomat's wife (Mrs. Dupont) who falls under the spell of a phony... 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
Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes. Adolphe Menjou. Ernest Hemingway's classic tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in... 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
Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, D.W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation, Way Down East) paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama starring Walter Huston (The... more
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou. Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic... 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
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
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
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
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
A pair of striking films from early years of the Soviet Union, Earth tells the story Of an impoverished Ukraine farming town rocked by controversy, and The End of St. Petersburg follows a widowed... more
Directed by Russian expatriate Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring legendary screen actors Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) and Werner Krauss (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), this early version of William... 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