German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a…

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble…

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Director William Dieterle’s 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of…

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of…

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam’s sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who…

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle…

In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale’s heroic measures slowly changes all of this.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the…

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose…

The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy..

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O’Brien).

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn’t understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical…

In this 1952 drama directed by William Dieterle, William Holden stars as an agent for horse jockeys who faces his greatest challenge.

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares…

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl,…

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be…

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare’s comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies…

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,…

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small…

Danny Haley’s bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a…

From the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter needs John dead, however, Herod worries to damage him because…

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, has infatuated from the attractiveness of Esmeralda, a gypsy young woman. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo’s protege and bell-ringer of…