Silent/Early Sound Discoveries

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90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic

Director: Herbert Ponting Herbert G. Ponting's spellbinding chronicle of Captain Robert Scott's heroic and ultimately tragic race for the South Po...

Back To God's Country and Something New

Director: Nell Shipman These two extraordinary films starring early independent producer, writer, conservationist and star Nell Shipman were shot on lo...

Beyond the Rocks

Director: Sam Wood Beyond the Rocks, the silent romance starring film legends Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino was long considered one of the g...

Big Stakes (Latino Visions 1)

Director: LATINO VISIONS-DISC ONE Ramona, A Story of the White Man’s Injustice to the Indian 1910. Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: ...

Blot, The

Director: Lois Weber In a time where women played a central role in creating the American cinema, Lois Weber (1881–1939) was the outstanding wo...

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Director: Hugh Munro Neely Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedi...

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Before they dreamed up that oversized ape, King Kong's creators filmed this magical story of a Thai family's struggle to...

Cook and Other Treasures, The

Director: At the Bull Pup Café, Arbuckle is chef of all trades and Keaton waits tables in his own inimitable fashion. When a rambun...

Cut to the Chase: The Charley Chase Classic Comedy Collection

Director: Two years in the works, the Charley Chase DVD project will come out with some of the funniest films ever made! Working with Chas...

Dragon Painter, The

Director: William Worthington IL CINEMA RITROVATO-DVD AWARDS 2008 Special Mention Remembered mostly for his magnificent performance as the Japanese officer i...

Dziga and His Brothers: A Film Family on the Cutting Edge

Director: The fascinating and tumultuous lives of Mikhail, Boris and Denis Kaufman (better known as Dziga Vertov) are the focus of this po...

Early Russian Cinema The Complete Set

Director: When these films first showed at the Il Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, the world was astonished by the genius of these films. ...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 1 and 2

Director: Volumes 1 and 2 are on one disc for the price of $24.95 Early Russian Cinema Volume One: Beginnings ...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 3: Starewicz's Fantasies

Director: Ladislaw Starewicz “Starewicz is one of those cinemagicians whose name deserves to stand in film history alongside those of Méliès, Emil Cohl a...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 4: Provincial Variations

Director: Unsurprisingly, the early Russian cinema industry was predominantly urban and concentrated mainly in Moscow. But as the audience...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 5: Chardynin & Pushkin

Director: The modern cult of Pushkin as the idealized “greatest Russian author” was gaining momentum during the period that Russian ci...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 6: Class Distinctions

Director: Evgeni Bauer A contemporary review acclaimed The Peasants’ Lot as a fine picture on a subject “close to the heart of every Russian.” As...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 7: Evgeni Bauer

Director: Evgeni Bauer These three contrasting films by Bauer reveal something of the distinctive eroticism of his work and indeed of early Russian cin...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 8: Iakov Protazanov

Director: Early Russian Cinema Volume Eight: IAKOV PROTAZANOV THE DEPARTURE OF A GREAT OLD MAN (Ukhod velikago startso). Alternate title:...

Early Russian Cinema Volume 9: High Society

Director: Evgeni Bauer The discovery of early Russian cinema in recent years has focused on its highly individual characteristics and its hitherto negl...

Early Russian Cinema Volume Ten: The End of an Era

Director: Evgeni Bauer Traditional accounts of Soviet cinema have always stressed its difference from the Russian cinema of the Tsarist period, implyin...

Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon

Director: Mitchell & Kenyon In the earliest years of the twentieth century, enterprising traveling showmen in the north of England hired pioneer filmmakers ...

Eternal Love

Director: Ernst Lubitsch The story of Eternal Love takes place during the events leading up to the war of 1806. French conquerors order Swiss villagers t...

Evangeline

Director: Edwin Carewe A story of lost love deeply ingrained in American mythology, Evangeline vividly brings to life the human consequences of histori...

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison A classic adventure by the makers of "King Kong." In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsa...

Heart O' The Hills

Director: Sidney Franklin Wild, hell-raising, Kentucky farmgirl Mavis Hawn (Pickford) has devoted her life to avenging the death of her father, shot by an...

Hindle Wakes

Director: Maurice Elvey Factory girls Fanny Hawthorn and Mary Hollins decide to take their vacation at Blackpool — Britain’s version of Cone...

In the Land of the War Canoes

Director: Edward S. Curtis In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, Britis...

IT starring Clara Bow

Director: Clarence Badger Vivacious. Stunning. Exhilarating. She was the brightest star of the Jazz Age and its greatest sex symbol. There was never anyon...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Director: Alfred Green and Jack Pickford "What the Earl saw was a graceful, childish figure in a black velvet suit, with a collar and lovelocks waving about his han...

Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer

Director: Evgeni Bauer Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the haunting terror of Edgar Allan Poe an...

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Director: Hugh Munro Neely By the age of seventeen, Mary Pickford had become the first actress to achieve international superstardom. By the time she was t...

Olive Thomas Collection, The

Director: Andi Hicks, Alan Crosland In the heyday of silent films, a winsome ingénue named Olive Thomas — affectionately dubbed "Ollie" by he...

Phantom of the Opera: The Ultimate Edition

Director: Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgewick, Ernst Laemmle One of the most famous horror films of all time — The Phantom of the Opera: The Ultimate Edition, stars "the man with...

Piccadilly

Director: E.A. Dupont E.A. (Varieté) Dupont's Piccadilly, the 1929 silent masterpiece brilliantly restored by the British Film Institute, s...

Sand Bubbles

Director: Louis J. Dorflinger, son of the founder of Dorflinger Glass Works, wrote in his diary on Monday, September 25, 1916 that three g...

Silent Shakespeare: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on...

Director: In the early days of the cinema, pioneer filmmakers created these seven charming, moving and magical films based on the plays of...

Simba: The King of the Beasts

Director: Martin Johnson, Osa Johnson The Johnsons were national celebrities in the 1920s. For Simba, these explorer-filmmakers forded crocodile-infested rivers and s...

South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition

Director: Frank Hurley When Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on the Endurance on August 8, 1914, he was already an internationally renowned Antarctic exp...

Suds

Director: Jack Dillon Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for ...

Tabu: a Story of the South Sea

Director: F.W. Murnau Filmed entirely in Tahiti, TABU represents an unusual collaboration between legendary directors F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise)...

Terre, La

Director: André Antoine Zola's powerful novel of family greed, brutality and deceit is brilliantly brought to the screen by director André An...

Through the Back Door

Director: Alfred Green and Jack Pickford Though rarely screened, Through the Back Door provides the incandescent Mary Pickford with one of her finest roles. Young Jeanne...

White Thunder

Director: Victoria King On March 9, 1931, the SS Viking left the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, and sailed into motion picture history. On board ...

Winsor McCay: The Master Edition

Director: Winsor McCay "LITTLE NEMO" - 2009 SELECTION FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS' NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY Winsor McCay was the first master of ...

With Byrd at the South Pole

Director: Joseph Rucker, Willard van der Veer Byrd was one of the most popular heroes in the age of exploration of the twenties. While he is nearly forgotten today, Richard ...

Without Lying Down

Director: Bridget Terry "I've spent my life searching for a man to look up to without lying down." - Frances Marion And what a life it w...