Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

This the story of a wizard elk - Rauten, as people called him. He was a human being in animal guise....

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace...

A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new ...
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes d...

Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make...

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smuggl...

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, i...

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster....

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé,...

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

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young b...

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat t...

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw ...

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one ...

The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American si...

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

The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with...

The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student...

"Rusalka" or "Mermaid" based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a...