This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

A cook and his assistant are seen preparing dinner. While cook leaves the room he cautions his assistant to watch the pot so that it will not boil...

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil...

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told...

A barber's customer is not accustomed to the blade. Luckily, the coiffeur has a modern solution.

This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the...

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to...

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line....

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the...

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life. Pretty surprising film coming from...

At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee...

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer...