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The Congress Dances
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The Congress Dances

Sep. 29, 1931

The Congress Dances

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant ...
Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton

Sep. 12, 1931

Alexander Hamilton

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln

Nov. 08, 1930

Abraham Lincoln

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln’s life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; ...
Storm Over Asia
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Storm Over Asia

Nov. 10, 1928

Storm Over Asia

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from ...
The Passion of Joan of Arc
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The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming ...
The Last Command
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The Last Command

Jan. 21, 1928

The Last Command

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Napoleon
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Napoleon

Jan. 10, 1927

Napoleon

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican’s career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military ...
Battleship Potemkin
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Battleship Potemkin

Dec. 24, 1925

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. ...
The Iron Horse
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The Iron Horse

Oct. 04, 1925

The Iron Horse

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which ...
The Loves of Pharaoh
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The Loves of Pharaoh

Feb. 21, 1922

The Loves of Pharaoh

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Häxan
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Häxan

Sep. 18, 1922

Häxan

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to ...
Anna Boleyn
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Anna Boleyn

Dec. 03, 1920

Anna Boleyn

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious ...
Anniversary of the Revolution
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Anniversary of the Revolution

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and ...
The Dumb Girl of Portici
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The Dumb Girl of Portici

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Martyrs of the Alamo
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Martyrs of the Alamo

Nov. 20, 1915

Martyrs of the Alamo

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
The Coward
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The Coward

Nov. 14, 1915

The Coward

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by ...
The Birth of a Nation
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The Birth of a Nation

Mar. 08, 1915

The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is ...
The Drummer of the 8th
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The Drummer of the 8th

When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he’s wounded in battle and taken ...
The Rose of Kentucky
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The Rose of Kentucky

Aug. 24, 1911

The Rose of Kentucky

A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother’s death and sends her off to school. After she’s grown, he encourages her to ...
My Generation
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My Generation

Oct. 08, 2017

My Generation

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine’s personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
The Rise of Eve
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The Rise of Eve

Jul. 20, 2018

The Rise of Eve

A documentary film that examines sexual persecution and violence against women throughout history within various cultures that places the blame ...
Who was Hitler
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Who was Hitler

Nov. 16, 2017

Who was Hitler

Hitler’s biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself ...
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group ...
Bergman: A Year in a Life
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Bergman: A Year in a Life

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films ...
Kazantzakis
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Kazantzakis

Nov. 23, 2017

Kazantzakis

The true story of the greatest Greek writer of the 20th century, Nikos Kazantzakis, based on his work, Report to Greco, which is, essentially, ...
Searchers
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Searchers

Sep. 12, 2016

Searchers

Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) returns with this Arctic epic inspired by the classic John Ford western of the same ...
Hitler’s Olympics
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Hitler’s Olympics

Jul. 16, 2016

Hitler’s Olympics

Hitler, Nazi propaganda and 1936 Berlin Olympics are put under the microscope to uncover hidden truths and the historical legacy of those games.
Ernesto
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Ernesto

Oct. 06, 2017

Ernesto

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil ...