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"D.W. Griffith's Colossal Spectacle"

Intolerance (1916)
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh, Elmo Lincoln
Director: D.W. Griffith
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D. W. Griffith's epic investigation of intolerance across the ages. Set in four distinct historical periods - ancient Babylon, Judea at the time of Christ, France during the build up to the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, and early 20th century America - its huge cast and elaborate sets made it one ..read more »
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Due for release on 19th August 2013

Haxan - Witchcraft Through The Ages on DVD (1929)
Starring: Aage Hertel, Johannes Andersen, Clara Pontoppidan
Director: Benjamin Christensen
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Scandinavian filmmaker Benjamin Christenson's 1922 documentary on the history of witchcraft, black magic and demonology. This silent film attempts to chart the black arts from the middle ages through to the 20th century using a variety of styles, including illustrated slideshows and dramatisations ..read more »
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The Last Laugh on DVD (1924)
Starring: Emelie Kurtz, Emil Jannings, Kurt Hiller
Director: F.W. Murnau
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Silent classic from 1924 that tells the tale of the humiliation, rejection and ultimate triumph of an elderly hotel doorman (Emil Jannings) whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant, but gets the last laugh when he inherits the fortune of a wealthy American who left his bundle ..read more »
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Our Hospitality/Sherlock Jr on DVD
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Buster Keaton
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A double bill of classic silent comedy. 'Our Hospitality' (1923) sees Buster Keaton as the last surviving member of the McCoy family, sending up the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud. Trouble is inevitable when he falls in love with a Hatfield (Natalie Talmadge, his real-life girlfriend). The film also ..read more »
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Battleship Potemkin on DVD (1925)
Starring: Grigori Alexandrov, Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Gomorov
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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The masterpiece of Russian silent film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein is a dramatised account of the naval mutiny and street riots at the sea port of Odessa that sparked off the 1905 Russian Revolution. When the crew of the Potemkin protests after being given rotten meat as rations, the captain responds ..read more »
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"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story!"

The Lost World on DVD (1925)
Starring: Wallace Beery, Jules Cowles, Alma Bennett
Director: Harry Hoyt
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Adaptation of the classic novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) faces ridicule when he declares that dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the far-flung Amazon. He bases his claim on a diary given to him by Paula White (Bessie Love), whose father has gone missing while ..read more »
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"A masterpiece of horror that shocked cinema for decades!"

The Phantom Of The Opera on DVD (1925)
Starring: Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Mary Philbin
Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Edward Sedgwick
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"Love, Locomotives and Laughs"

The General on DVD (1926)
Starring: Glen Cavander, Joseph Keaton, Jim Farley
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
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Johnnie loves two things: his train and the lovely Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War breaks out he enlists as a soldier, but it is decided that he is too valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it is because he is a coward. When Union spies capture Johnnie with Annabelle on board, Johnnie "The ..read more »
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THE KID BROTHER (1927)

Harold Lloyd Collection (9 discs) on DVD (1923)
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strothers
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An exhaustive 10 disc compendium of work by the bespectacled master of silent comedy and stuntman extraordinaire, Harold Lloyd. Though he went on to have a career in the 'talkies' with the advent of sound, his best known character - a straw boater and thick round spectacle-wearing chappie - reigned ..read more »
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"There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator"

Metropolis (2 discs) (1927)
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
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Directed by Fritz Lang, this acclaimed vision of a 21st century city is widely held to be one of the greatest films of the silent era. In the year 2000, industrialist John Frederson rules over a giant city where the workers exist only as an underclass. They call for rebellion, but their leader ..read more »
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