Decades
600 films in this collection
Collection no. #86469 minFyodor Otsep
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A soldier returns to a village where his family cannot survive on the poor land available to them. His wife takes work as a wet nurse in a wealthy…
Collection no. #87658 minYakov Protazanov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A stationmaster absorbed in heroic adventure stories becomes the object of local women's laughter. Embarrassed, he asserts his authority by enforcing…
Collection no. #87774 minVladimir Gardin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A priest secretly involved with foreign spies tries to use a woman's former relationship with a police official to obtain information. She knows a…
Collection no. #879159 minAlexandre Volkoff
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. · No subtitle track in this language
Casanova moves through Venice with debts, lovers and offended husbands close behind him. Escape carries him toward Russia, where a new disguise gains…
Collection no. #88170 minYakov Protazanov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
Three stories reveal people adjusting their behavior to rank and authority. A young wife's social success separates her from her struggling family; a…
Collection no. #88373 minYuri Tarich
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A gifted serf dreams of building wings during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. His ability to repair machines brings him under the control of powerful…
Collection no. #88462 minVsevolod Pudovkin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Experiments with animals and observations of human behavior introduce the viewer to reflexes and learned responses. Pudovkin organizes scientific…
Collection no. #889130 minSvend Gade
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
Raised as a prince to preserve the royal succession, Hamlet lives with an identity arranged before birth. Returning from study to find a dead father…
Collection no. #897116 minJacques Feyder
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. · No subtitle track in this language
After his mother's death, Jean struggles to accept his father's new marriage and the rearrangement of their Swiss mountain home. Objects, rooms and…
Collection no. #90363 minAleksei Popov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two soap-factory workers invent a machine to improve packaging, but their employer shows little interest and a private supplier sees it as a threat.…
Collection no. #90475 minJacques Feyder
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An elderly vegetable seller is arrested after a dispute with a policeman over moving his cart. The court's version of the encounter matters more than…
Collection no. #90541 minGermaine Dulac
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. · No subtitle track in this language
Madame Beudet finds little companionship in a marriage dominated by her husband's crude habits and repeated joke about an unloaded revolver. Alone…
Collection no. #90864 minNina Agadzhanova-Shutko
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A circus clown dreams of performing a joint act with his son, whose commitment to the revolutionary cause draws him into the Russian Civil War. When…
Collection no. #91749 minLeopold Jessner
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A maid waits for visits and letters from her lover while a lonely postman watches from across the courtyard. When the expected messages stop, a…
Collection no. #918122 minManfred Noa
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
In Jerusalem during the Crusades, Nathan's dealings with people of different faiths place religious divisions beside the obligations of family and…
Collection no. #924160 minJacques Feyder
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. · No subtitle track in this language
Ordered to arrest Carmen after a fight at the tobacco factory, Don José allows himself to be persuaded into helping her escape. Punishment for that…
Collection no. #925104 minJean Epstein
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. · No subtitle track in this language
A prince fleeing an imagined Asian kingdom reaches France and meets a film star who brings him into the studio world. Playing a story resembling his…
Collection no. #93560 minErnst Lubitsch
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
An innkeeper refuses to let his cheerful younger daughter marry until her difficult older sister has found a husband. The suitor who wants the…