Films By and About Women

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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Director: Marshall Neilan A widow's eldest daughter, Amarilly, is the belle of Clothes-Line Alley, an Irish neighborhood near San Francisco's Chin...

Araya

Director: Margot Benacerraf The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history. Acclaimed as ...

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...

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...

Daddy-Long-Legs

Director: Marshall Neilan In Daddy-Long-Legs, Mary Pickford plays an orphan, Jerusha (Judy) Abbott, abandoned as a baby in an alley and raised in a cruel ...

Evangeline

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

From the Archives of Modern Art

Director: Eleanor Antin The "lost" films of Eleanora Antinova, the black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, including comic shorts, et...

Gay Desperado, The

Director: Rouben Mamoulian Ida Lupino and Metropolitan Opera star tenor, Nino Martini, star in this classic musical comedy directed by the great Rouben Mam...

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...

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...

Last Night of Rasputin, The

Director: Eleanor Antin The final orgy and dreadful end of the notorious monk, Rasputin, on the eve of the Russian Revolution....

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...

Love Light,The

Director: Frances Marion This rarely seen film directed by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion ( Stella Maris, The Wind, Camille) provided Mary Pickfor...

Maborosi

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda One of the finest films of the decade, Hirokazu kore-eda's first feature film Maborosi is a story of love, loss, and ultimat...

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...

Man Without a World, The

Director: Eleanor Antin This Yiddish post-modernist creation by contemporary filmmaker and artist Antin encompasses the full cycle of shtetl life, compl...

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...

Millay at Steepletop

Director: Kevin Brownlow Millay at Steepletop is a loving tribute to the great American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-acre up...

My Best Girl

Director: Sam Taylor Thanks to the superb work of Sam Taylor (one of Harold Lloyd's favorite directors), legendary cinematographer Charles Rosher...

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...

Seni's Children

Director: Philip Haas Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in southern Senegal. While potters in her village make o...

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...

Sparrows

Director: William Beaudine Hidden deep in the Southern swamps, the Grimes family operates a "baby farm" where unwanted or "lost" childr...

Stella Maris

Director: Marshall Neilan From 1916 to 1919, the team of Mary Pickford, scriptwriter Frances Marion and director Marshall Neilan advanced the art of film ...

Suds

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

Tess of the Storm Country

Director: John S. Robertson In 1914, Mary Pickford became a true motion-picture artist with her performance in Edwin S. Porter's Tess of the Storm Country. ...

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...

Tonight or Never

Director: Mervyn LeRoy Nella Vago (Gloria Swanson) is an opera singer making her Venice debut. While the audiences love her, Nella's voice teacher ...

Two Friends

Director: Jane Campion Two Friends, the first feature film by Academy Award® winner Jane Campion (Sweetie, An Angel at My Table and The Piano). Whe...

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 ...

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...

You Got To Move: Stories of Change in the South

Director: Lucy Massie Phenix & Veronica Selver Milliarium Zero's release in celebration of the legendary Highlander Folk School, YOU GOT TO MOVE follows a group of individ...