Cast: D.W. Griffith

Direction Kevin Brownlow · Michael Kloft

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Charles Chaplin · Sydney Chaplin · Walter Bernstein

Synopsis A fascinating documentary that explores the making of Charles Chaplin's first "talkie" The Great Dictator (1940) and draws many things that between Chaplin and Hitler had in common. The film contains colour home movie footage of the film's production which...

Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast William Bakewell · Evelyn Baldwin · Eileen Bowser · Karl Brown

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Edna Foster · Donald Crisp · Joseph Graybill · Dell Henderson

Synopsis Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Peter Coyote · Robert Altman · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Fred Astaire

Synopsis Documentary based on the first anniversary of the most important exporter of films in the world as it is Hollywood, this story is told by actors and actresses as well as writers and other people who made life in this...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast D.W. Griffith · David Lloyd George · Sir Edward Grey · René Viviani

Synopsis A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some...

Direction J. Searle Dawley

Cast Henry B. Walthall · Miss Earle · Jinnie Frazer · D.W. Griffith

Synopsis A woodcutter says good-bye to his wife and child, and then goes off to work. After he has left, the mother leaves the child outside their cabin to play. Suddenly, an eagle swoops down and carries off the child. When...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Owen Moore · Linda Arvidson · Kate Bruce · William J. Butler

Synopsis During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors...

Direction D.W. Griffith · Wallace McCutcheon Jr.

Cast Edward Dillon · George Gebhardt · Mack Sennett · D.W. Griffith

Synopsis A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mack Sennett · Kathlyn Williams · Lee Dougherty · Marion Leonard

Synopsis A corrupt politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in wooing her.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Harry Solter · Linda Arvidson · Charles Inslee · George Gebhardt

Synopsis A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mabel Stoughton · Linda Arvidson · George Gebhardt · D.W. Griffith

Synopsis A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made....

Direction Wallace McCutcheon

Cast Edward Dillon · D.W. Griffith · Anthony O'Sullivan · Mack Sennett

Synopsis Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He...

Direction Wallace McCutcheon

Cast D.W. Griffith

Synopsis A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costume ball. Meanwhile, the husband meets a friend, and the...

Direction Marshall Flaum

Cast Henry Fonda · Walter Abel · June Allyson · George Arliss

Synopsis Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Miles · Florence Lawrence · Dorothy West · D.W. Griffith

Synopsis Portrays two teenage girls who are safeguarding money for their father and their reaction to a burglar's attempt to steal it.

Direction Yves Jeuland

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Henry Bergman · Eric Campbell

Synopsis The work, life and activism of one of the most multi-talented artists of his times: Charles Chaplin. An extensive film entirely nourished by anthology scenes from his masterpieces and rare archive footage of the most joyful and surprising.

Direction Graeme Ferguson · Saul J. Turell

Cast Jean Acker · Bronco Billy Anderson · Agnes Ayres · John Barrymore

Synopsis A documentary of Hollywood’s first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Direction Florence Dauman · Dale Ann Stieber

Cast Francis Ford Coppola · Martin Scorsese · Robert Altman · Peter Bogdanovich

Synopsis This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first...

Direction Nicholas Eliopoulos

Cast Charles Chaplin · Walt Disney · Amelia Earhart · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Synopsis "Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies" traces the life and work of the legendary silent film star, movie pioneer, and keen business woman who co-created United Artists Studios. Pickford's life (1892-1979)also parallels an even larger story, the telling of...