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poster Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
(4/5)
84mn - Documentary
Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is t…
poster Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
(2.8/5)
75mn - Western
In 1775, legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone leads thirty settler families into the treacherous wilderness of Kentucky territory, where they face deadly raids by Native Americans led by the renegade white…
poster Sin Takes a Holiday
Sin Takes a Holiday
(3.1/5)
81mn - Romance, Comedy
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contem…
poster The Singing Fool
The Singing Fool
(3.2/5)
102mn - Drama, Music
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging …
poster Le président en promenade
Le président en promenade
1mn - Documentary
A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.
poster Homunculus
Homunculus
360mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.
poster The President
The President
(3.3/5)
71mn - Drama
By his father’s deathbed, a young man agrees to never marry below his station. Later, he falls in love with a lowly governess, impregnates her, and does not marry her. Many years later, as the President o…
poster President McKinley Taking the Oath
President McKinley Taking the Oath
1mn - Documentary
President McKinley taking the Oath.
poster The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
(2.9/5)
1mn - Documentary
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster Penn of Pennsylvania
Penn of Pennsylvania
(2.8/5)
78mn - History, Drama
A young English aristocrat abandons privilege and defies his father to join the persecuted Quakers, ultimately founding Pennsylvania as a revolutionary colony based on religious tolerance and peaceful coe…
poster The Bond
The Bond
(2.7/5)
11mn - Comedy
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating…
poster Photograph
Photograph
1mn - Comedy
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture,…
poster Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone
(3.3/5)
70mn - Drama
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
poster The Tragedy of Silence
The Tragedy of Silence
(3.6/5)
60mn - Drama
Due to an unfortunate mistake with laboratory samples, a young husband is diagnosed as suffering from the terrible disease of leprosy. In his distress he decides to leave home.
poster Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(2.8/5)
96mn - History, Drama
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; hi…
poster The Martyred Presidents
The Martyred Presidents
1mn - Documentary, History
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of tw…
poster A Moonlight Serenade
A Moonlight Serenade
3mn - Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.
poster Lamb
Lamb
(3.2/5)
93mn - Drama
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his…
poster The Serenade
The Serenade
10mn - Comedy
Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
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