Hallelujah
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
The Broadway Melody
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield’s shows. Eddie was in love…
The Shakedown
The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
Black and Tan
Short film featuring Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
Woman in the Moon
A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a sucessful expedition.
The Informer
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
Glorifying the American Girl
The plot involves a young woman (Mary Eaton) who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department store’s sheet…
Broadway
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Asphalt
One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the…
Lucky Star
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he…
The Romance of Seville
Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon’s betrothal,…
St. Louis Blues
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin’ with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus…
Drifters
A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.
Diary of a Lost Girl
Thymiane Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father’s pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a…
The Taming of the Shrew
Adapted from Shakespeare’s play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her…
Skyscraper Symphony
A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid…
Piccadilly
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.
Rain
Spite Marriage
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn’t realize is that he…
The Steel Road
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
Blackmail
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to…
Finis Terrae
On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can…
The Manxman
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies.
