The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Battleship Potemkin
1925
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
The Gold Rush
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
The Phantom of the Opera
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Seven Chances
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Strike
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
The Lost World
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
The Eagle
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
The Big Parade
A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
The Crazy Ray
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
The Iron Horse
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
The Unholy Three
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Joyless Street
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Go West
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
Master of the House
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
The Freshman
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
The Pleasure Garden
Fiction · Facsimiles
Lady Susan
Fiction · Married women
Mrs. Dalloway
Fiction · Teacher-student relationships
The Professor's House
Fiction · Juvenile audience
Winnie-the-Pooh
Fiction · Charlie Chan (Fictitious character)
The house without a key
Fiction, science fiction, general · Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
The Cave Girl
Religion · Apologetic works
The Everlasting Man
Fiction · Mystery
The Secret of Chimneys
Interracial marriage · Missionaries
Vanishing American
short story · aristocracy
William Wilson
Conduct of life · New Age
The game of life and how to play it
Counterfeiters · Fiction
Les Faux-monnayeurs
Love stories, English · Manuscripts
Sanditon
fiction · children's stories
The House at Pooh Corner
Fiction · British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Portrait of a man with red hair
Fiction · History
No more parades
Fiction · Fiction in English
Manhattan Transfer
Artists and patrons · Authors and readers
Those barren leaves, a novel