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poster The Making of an American

The Making of an American

Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.

poster French Cops Learning English

French Cops Learning English

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

poster Seeing the World

Seeing the World

In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…

poster Lost for Words

Lost for Words

107mn - Drama, Romance

A wounded ex-Marine seeking a fresh start in Hong Kong falls for a talented Chinese ballerina from Beijing, but as their cross-cultural romance deepens through language lessons and shared dreams, mounting…

poster Among Those Present

Among Those Present

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

poster Making an American Citizen

Making an American Citizen

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

poster King Lear

King Lear

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan

The Young Lady and the Hooligan

44mn - Drama, Romance

A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…

poster Shadows

Shadows

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…

poster Heckle

Heckle

98mn - Drama, Comedy

A supermarket cashier with dreams beyond checkout lines discovers her calling when a washed-up comedian challenges her to face her fears on stage, launching a journey of self-discovery where bombing on st…

poster Ashes

Ashes

39mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…

poster King Lear

King Lear

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

poster Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy

Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy

6mn - Comedy, Western

Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West.

poster East Is East

East Is East

80mn - Drama, Romance

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on…

poster The Ancient Law

The Ancient Law

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.

poster Children Who Labor

Children Who Labor

The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill.…

poster The Italian

The Italian

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.

poster East Lynne

East Lynne

An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.

poster Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

poster Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

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