The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

Set in Spanish colonial Philippines. Pedro is tasked to wed a wife whilst his activist friend is considering him to join the revolution. Through a...

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b)...

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understandable focus on Italian athletes, but it is the...

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack...

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...