Presents the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema, who dominated silent film comedy from the days of Keystone until tragic events in 1921 shattered his career, throwing his film triumphs into obscurity. Blacklisted by Hollywood, Arbuckle continued directing dozens of film comedies under the pseudonym "William Goodrich" for almost another decade.

Utopia: In their very last film, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy travel to London so that Stan can claim his uncle's inheritance. On a yacht that his uncle left him, the boys take a cruise and are marooned on an atoll where they are forced to survive in a Robinson Crusoe-like existence. Best of Laurel & Hardy. Mud & Sand: Slapstick parody of Rudolph Valentino's Blood and Sand. Stan Laurel Home Movies: Collection of footage shot during a tour. The...

A collection of four of Chaplin's films.

Silent film detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The filem was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was heavily censored by Stalin, but in 1967 a full restoration was made,...

An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.

Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them.His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him...Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves....

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

This volume examines the development of film and the film industry from 1907 to 1915 and the political and economic background that influenced it.

A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams, and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three people were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make this migration with the tribes.