The Mutual Films contract was perhaps Charlie Chaplin's happiest period of film making. This release features custard pie fights in BEHIND THE SCREEN, roller-skating in THE RINK and Chaplin takes the ... Read more
Fantomas, the mysterious arch-criminal who holds Paris in the grip of terror, was first brought to the screen by this legendary serial by celebrated French cinema pioneer Louis Feuillade. The ... Read more
This silent film is recognised as a work of art and is the director's most ambitious. He uses stories from various times to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences, such as the ... Read more
Stella Maris, is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. ... Read more
Gloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
In the Kentucky hills, Jason Honeycutt lives with his harsh stepfather Steve, not far from where his friend Mavis Hawn lives with her widowed mother. Mavis spends much of her time preparing for the ... Read more
German-American Karl and French-American Jules are in love with Angela when each returns to his country as war breaks out. She sails for France and while there is nearly raped by Karl as the Germans ... Read more
Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. ... Read more
This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An ideological Asian (Richard ... Read more