
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This...
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...
A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of...
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...
A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
A boy falls for a princess, his cat for hers. But her father does not like the idea of a commoner marrying a noblewoman and kicks him out. After...
Three overlapping stories showcase the power of love after the death of a child, a father, and a lover for those who remain.
In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power :...
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as...
For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus...
A silent movie protagonist hears sound for the first time, sending him down a psychologically twisted rabbit hole from which there can be no return.
The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing...
This typically rambunctious Keystone comedy features Charlie Murray as a French count who challenges a rival to a duel over the affections of his...
The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring...
Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...
Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in...
A hapless stage musician struggles to keep the attention of her meagre audience. When her tricks start to backfire with increasingly dire results,...
A silent film following a broken father and his misfit baby.