The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slaver...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul K...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. ...

After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist mee...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly politica...

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.