A young railroad engineer is prevented from enlisting in the Confederate Army because of his profession. A year later he is able to free his girlfriend who is a passenger on a train hijacked by Union ... Read more
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio'... Read more
Prof Challenger claims that dinosaurs are living in the far reaches of the Amazon. A newspaper funds an expedition to South America to find the dinosaurs and a marooned explorer. They bring a ... Read more
Buster Keaton pokes fun at the Western about a friendless drifter who befriends a cow called Brown Eyes. He goes with her on the cattle train to the stockyards. But when rustlers attack, he saves her ... Read more
In this classic version, young D'Artagnan joins forces with three musketeers, Porthos, Aramis and Athos. They oppose the scheming Cardinal Richelieu who is plotting to discredit Queen Anne, the wife ... Read more
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and ... Read more
This silent screen adaptation of 'Moby Dick' features John Barrymore in action as Captain Ahab Cooley, played against one of the most famous denizens of the deep, Herman Melville's great white whale. ... Read more
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe ... 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 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent patriot, and a notorious carouser who is ... Read more