
The film tells the back story about the characters and events leading up to the explosive oil truck ...

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and live...

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch,...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though h...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.
The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same t...

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the g...
Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Rome...

Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna w...

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch o...

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to...

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who ...

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for havin...

At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one hi...

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on scree...

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that...