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poster The Genius of Roald Dahl
The Genius of Roald Dahl
47mn - Documentary
Comedian and children's author David Walliams embarks on a fascinating journey into the mind of literary legend Roald Dahl, exploring how personal tragedies and dark experiences shaped the magical worlds …
poster Pollyanna
Pollyanna
58mn - Comedy, Drama, Family
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna'…
poster Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Comedy
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated …
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster Romance of a Jewess
Romance of a Jewess
12mn - Comedy
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an i…
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster The Hare and the Tortoise
The Hare and the Tortoise
6mn - Animation
A retelling of the classic Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.
poster Three's a Crowd
Three's a Crowd
(3.1/5)
60mn - Comedy
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his te…
poster Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie
(3.3/5)
57mn - Drama
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relativ…
poster Paper Year
Paper Year
(2.6/5)
89mn - Drama, Romance
Young newlyweds encounter a series of challenges during the first year of their marriage.
poster The Blue Bird
The Blue Bird
(3.5/5)
75mn - Drama, Fantasy
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Do…
poster Paul Ogata: A Collection of My Favorite Lies
Paul Ogata: A Collection of My Favorite Lies
59mn - Comedy
In his first hour-long comedy special, award-winning comedian Paul Ogata takes it upon himself to solve the world's problems by exposing the lies of modern society, including the Ebola scare, food allergi…
poster New Women
New Women
106mn - Drama
Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up even…
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 Blondie on a Budget
Blondie on a Budget
(3.3/5)
72mn - Comedy
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for …
poster Jenny
Jenny
(2.6/5)
34mn - Drama
A romance story about Jenny and the men that love her.
poster A Tale of Two Bunnies
A Tale of Two Bunnies
(2.7/5)
0mn - Short, Drama
Two small-town girls arrive in Chicago to find fame and fortune. Ruby wants to be a fashion designer; Holly simply wants a city salary to help out her family. Both girls' heads are turned by the chance to…
poster Shoes
Shoes
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.
poster Magic Art
Magic Art
6mn - Animation
An Aesop’s Fables Studio cartoon.
poster Games of Youth
Games of Youth
1mn - Documentary
Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a law…
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