An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher), the influential head union... more
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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
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
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery. The iconic screen adventurer pulls double duty —first as Zorro, the masked Mexican hero who fights for the rights of the poor and leaves the... 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
Ernst Lubitsch began his four-decade filmmaking career in Berlin when he left high school at the age of 16. After being invited to America by Hollywood legend Mary Pickford, it was clear early on... 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
Available at last on video, the notorious exploitation shocker from Mexican director René Cardona, Jr. That purported to show the gruesome events leading up to the November 1978 mass suicide of cult... more
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom is a charming, silent romantic comedy that tells the tale of a young man who falls in love with the title character (Yulia Solnsteva). She becomes a famous film star,... 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
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt. The French poet-patriot Francois Villon enters a battle of wits with King Louis XI and fights to save his beloved in this exciting and romantic adventure. Directed by... more
In one of the most eclectic films of the German silent era, visual stylist F.W. Murnau (Faust, Sunrise) broke away from the dark, foreboding dramas for which he was known to explore the realm of... 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
Mabel Normand stars in this hilarious silent double feature. The Extra Girl (1923/68 mins) finds Mabel's character running from small town romantic troubles to Hollywood where her backstage... 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
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 double-feature celebration hails from the earliest era of women directors in the mid-1910s. Includes The Ocean Waif (Doris Kenyon, Carlyle Blackwell. 1916/41 min.), which offers a Pygmalion-like... more
An atmospheric but shockingly tense thriller, the eerie British silent-era film A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929/b&w/87 min) is sure to satisfy fans of Hitchcock or German and Russian films from the same... more
Two extremely rare baseball films and 11 equally hard-to-find shorts are gathered together in one classic set. The set includes Headin' Home (1920/73 min.), Kinogram (Babe Ruth. 1920/73 min.), His... 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
Harold's humor reaches new heights of zaniness in this 2-DVD collection! These 10 flicks include several of his greatest hits such as Never Weaken (1921/8 min.), High and Dizzy (1920/26 min.), The... more
Charles Hatton, Frank Keenan, John Bowers. An English farmer falls in love with a young woman, even though he thinks her family killed his father. 1922/b&w/87 min/NR.
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