The Tramp and the Dictator

The Tramp and the Dictator

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released...

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San Francisco

San Francisco

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists...

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary...

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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

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The Adventures of Billy

The Adventures of Billy

Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.

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The Heart of O Yama

The Heart of O Yama

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that...

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At the Crossroads of Life

At the Crossroads of Life

At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a...

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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen...

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The Black Viper

The Black Viper

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl...

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When Knights Were Bold

When Knights Were Bold

Two noblemen fight over a lady.

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Flashback: The First World War

Flashback: The First World War

A collection of 2 minute documentaries that tell not only the historical facts of WW1, but also the stories of those most involved and others...

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A Calamitous Elopement

A Calamitous Elopement

A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of...

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Two Daughters of Eve

Two Daughters of Eve

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned...

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Deceived Slumming Party

Deceived Slumming Party

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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1776, or The Hessian Renegades

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy...

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The Red Girl

The Red Girl

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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At the French Ball

At the French Ball

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a...

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The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour

This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

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Caught by Wireless

Caught by Wireless

Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America

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