Movies (200) tagged by 'national film registry'
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Stand and Deliver (1988)
Los Angeles high-school teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) leads a street punk (Lou Diamond Phillips) and his classmates into calcul...
Deliverance (1972)
Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage...
Roman Holiday (1953)
A modern-day princess 'escapes' from her royal entourage while on a trip to Rome, and while incognito, falls in love with an American newspaperman. Oscar-winn...
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie. ...
Funny Girl (1968)
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, inc...
The Searchers (1956)
Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate soldier from the Indian Wars, finds that his family has been massacred and his niece captured by the Comanches and vows to bri...
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war
House of Wax (1953)
In order to rebuild his wax museum after a fire, Professor Henry Jarrod has resorted to using human bodies covered with wax
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him i...
The Heiress (1949)
A fortune hunter (Montgomery Clift) charms a doctor's (Ralph Richardson) plain daughter (Olivia de Havilland) in 19th-century New York. ...
Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye (Robert Mitchum) cannot seem to get away from a gambler (Kirk Douglas) and his no-good girlfriend (Jane Greer) .
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record...
Hoop Dreams (1994)
This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginn...
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Il cinema come sollievo dell'anima ! Convinto che in un periodo difficile si debbano girare soltanto film drammatici, un giovane regista cinematografico, duran...
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X....
The Gold Rush (1925)
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to ...
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Producer Howard Hawks' adaptation of the John Campbell story of an arctic expedition that runs afoul of a blood sucking alien is often credited (or blamed - de...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In pre-WWI Brooklyn, young Francie struggles to keep her idealism alive in the face of grinding poverty and the comedies and tragedies of ordinary life. Very c...
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display ...
The Endless Summer (1966)
The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up f...
The Muppet Movie (1980)
Kermit the Frog wants fame. Persuaded by an agent to pursue acting, he hops west towards Hollywood! Tagging along: Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and a motley grou...
The Music Man (1962)
Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching ...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the...
Going My Way (1944)
Singing Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) bails out crusty Father Fitzgibbon's (Barry Fitzgerald) financially strapped parish.
The Big Parade (1925)
The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the U.S.A. enters World War One. He is sent to France, where he becomes friends with two working-class ...
Monterey Pop (1969)
A documentary of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, focusing on the audience as well as performances by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who.
The Naked Spur (1953)
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's ...
Modern Times (1936)
The idea of the film was apparently given to Chaplin by a young reporter, who told him about the production line system in Detroit, which was turning its worke...
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1997)
In this fable-morality subtitled "A Song of Two Humans", the "evil" temptress is a city woman who bewitches farmer Anses and convinces him to murder his neglect...
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an ...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Two slimy fat-cat legislators recruit Jefferson Smith, an innocent and staunchly principled Montana scout leader, as the state's new Senator, hoping to exploi...
The Awful Truth (1937)
Spouses (Irene Dunne, Cary Grant) try to spoil each other's chances for romance before their divorce becomes final in 90 days.
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he ...
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which wou...
The Black Pirate (1926)
A certain pirate of the Spanish Main makes a practice of blowing up with all hands the ships he has looted. By a fluke, one man and his dying father survive su...
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
In this silent classic, Douglas Fairbanks is superb as a mischievous thief who, with the help of a genie's magic, tries to outwit the evil ruler of Bagdad. A ...
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The clerk at the train station is assaulted and left tied by four men, then they rob the train threatening the operator. (They) take all the money and shoot a p...
The Lost World (1925)
Wallace Beery is Professor Challenger, the man who persuades his sceptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has disco...
Lost Horizon (1937)
An airplane crash results in a British diplomat (Ronald Colman) and other Westerners being taken to Shangri-La, the Tibetan utopia of a dying ...
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Marx Brothers run amuck in the world of opera when Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) meets aspiring singer Ricardo (Allan Jones), who is de...
The General (1926)
Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life: his engine and his girl, Annabelle Lee. The War Between the States begins with an attack on Fort Sumter, and Johnnie is ...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1923)
Madariaga is an Argentinian cattle baron with two daughters: one married a Frenchman, the other a German. Madariaga favors his French grandson, Julio, as his he...
The Music Box (1932)
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzen...
Safety Last! (1923)
Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone wh...
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
In her first starring film vehicle, She Done Him Wrong, Mae West is Lady Lou, a saloon singer and "slick article" who drives every man who sees her mad with d...
Paris Is Burning (1990)
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless...
The Mark of Zorro (1920)
In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing swor...
Wild River (1960)
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the loc...
Imitation of Life (1934)
Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to wor...
The Immigrant (1917)
Charlie is on his way to the USA. He wins in a card game, puts the money in Edna's bag (she and her sick mother have been robbed of everything). When he retriev...
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A projectionist is studying to be a detective and is in love with a young lady. When he proposes her, his rival steals the chain watch of her father and incrim...
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualti...
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
The lifelong friendship between Leo and Ulrich is tested when they encounter Felicitas. Falling instantly in love, Leo is forced to take part in a duel with h...
America, America (1963)
It is somewhere around 1900. We watch a young Greek man who lives a miserable life in Turkey selling ice in the town market. Although the Greeks are oppressed ...
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Winsor Z. McCay bets another cartoonist that he can animate a dinosaur. So he draws a big friendly herbivore called Gertie. Then he get into his own picture. G...
The Hospital (1972)
Dark, satiric look at what happens at the Manhattan Medical Center, a large city hospital, when a number of bizarre, but fatal, incidents are eventually trace...
Duck and Cover (1952)
A grinning monkey sitting in a tree dangles a lit firecracker from a fishing pole just over the head of an unwary turtle. Realizing that an explosion is pendin...
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) (1953)
One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, n...
Sky High (1922)
A government agent investigates a ring that is smuggling Chinese aliens across the border from Mexico. His investigation takes him to the Grand Canyon. He finds...
Flash Gordon (1936)
The quarterback/space hero (Sam Jones) from Earth fights Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow) on the planet Mongo.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Steamboat Bill is excited that his son (Steamboat Bill Jr.) is coming to visit him. When he does, he tries to turn him into a proper person for working on the...
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike.
The Princess Nicotine; or (1909)
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, ...
Ball Of Fire (1941)
A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the Mob...
Adam's Rib (1949)
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Hu...
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy his father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
A Fool There Was (1915)
John Schuyler, happily married Wall Street lawyer, is appointed as special diplomatic representative to England. By an unhappy accident, his wife and child can'...
La chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Allan has a hard time finding the Usher's house, which is known to be cursed... But he is a personal friend of Roderick Usher, who lives with his sick wife Made...
The Informer (1935)
Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Du...
San Pietro (1945) (1945)
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that ...
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "culturally, historically, ...
House of Usher (1960)
After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Ro...
Punch Drunks (1934)
Moe discovers Curly's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly...
How the West Was Won (1962)
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century - including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroa...
Blood of Jesus (1941)
In the rural south of the United States, a godly young woman is accidently wounded by her unchurched husband. She succumbs to the injuries, whereupon a good an...
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
After sending his giant bird, Rokh, to wreck Popeye's boat and kidnap Olive Oyl, Sindbad forces Olive to dance for him by firing buckshot at her feet with a pea...
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
The Quiet Man (1952)
Sean Thornton has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful but poor maiden, an...
Born Yesterday (1950)
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl B...
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The 1970 adaptation of Emily Bronte's masterpiece of passion and doomed romance on the Yorkshire moors stars Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton.
Magical Maestro (1952)
A magician is spurned by an opera singer, and takes a spectacular revenge by replacing the conductor and turning the hapless tenor into one thing after another....
The Middleton Family At The New York's World Fair (1939)
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Salesman (1968)
Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go across the country selling very expensive bib...
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. He ...
The Power and the Glory (1933)
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meant...
Primary (1960)
Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary
Crisis Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the...
The Gang's All Here (1943)
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
The Crowd (1928)
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.
Dead Birds (1963)
Dead Birds is an informative and affecting ethnographic film that records the culture of the Dani people of New Guinea.
Precious Images (1986)
A cross-cut of nearly 100 years of American movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From "Citizen Kane" to "Star Wars", from "Some...
Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Ride the High Country (1962)
Aging ex-marshal Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory. He hires an old partner, Gil Westrum, and his young pro...
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving an heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Atlantic City (1980)
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger...
A Time Out of War (1954)
Two Union soldiers maintaining a position on a riverbank negotiate a one-hour truce with the Confederate soldier manning the opposite bank. During the hour, the...
Story of GI Joe (1945)
During WW2, Pulitzer prize winner and war correspondent Ernie Pyle joins the army and writes articles about his comrades in his daily columns.
The Iron Horse (1924)
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968)
Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
Stormy Weather (1943)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
On the Bowery (1956)
At the time of this film, the Bowery was a neighborhood in New York City populated largely by the down and out, and largely by transients. Those that can work g...
No Lies (1973)
A young filmmaking student turns his camera on a female friend as she gets ready to go out for the night. His questions strip away the young woman's defenses, a...
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
H2O (1929)
A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.
Hearts and Minds (1974)
An examination of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam War.
Foolish Wives (1922)
A con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Nothing But a Man (1964)
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
The TAMI Show (1964)
Surf pop duo, Jan and Dean host this showcase of performances by well-known Rock, R&B, and pop stars of the era.
OffOn (1967)
The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and fractured images,...
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'
Where Are My Children? (1916)
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community.
The Docks of New York (1928)
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
4 Little Girls (1997)
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
Putney Swope (1969)
Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul...
The Living Desert (1953)
Documentary of the live of flora and fauna in a desert in the US.
Powers of Ten (1977)
A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one bef...
Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days...
Woman of the Year (1942)
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Steamboat Willie (1928)
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
An animated chorus line of treats dances down a theater aisle while singing a jingle that encourages the audience to visit the concession stand. ...
The Learning Tree (1969)
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him...
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be cop...
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement. The husband's job requires him to go away for for a number of days. On hi...
High School (1969)
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the studen...
The Band Wagon (1953)
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Road to Morocco (1942)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Pull My Daisy (1959)
Milo is a railroad brakeman, his wife a painter. They have some poet friends who spend a good bit of time hanging out at their apartment. When Milo and his wife...
The Blue Bird (1918)
Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setti...
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to visit the Kwakwak...
The Cheat (1915)
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the sto...
Twentieth Century (1934)
Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. Whe...
The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Du...
Sherman's March (1985)
Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is...
The Emperor Jones (1933)
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
The River (1938)
This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Missi...
I Am Joaquin (1969)
This short film is based on the poem by the same title published by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales in 1967.
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin A...
Mabel's Blunder (1914)
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Three Little Pigs (1933)
When a hungry wolf starts blowing down some pigs' houses, they take refuge in their sensible brother's brick house.
Hell's Hinges (1916)
In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Chinese-American woman tries to expose illegal alien smuggling ring.
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
A once-timid young woman gains newfound confidence after a failed marriage, much to the chagrin of her miserable family.
King of Jazz (1930)
This revue presents its numbers around the orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, besides that it shows in it's final number that the European popular music are the ro...
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to nigh...
The House in the Middle (1954)
Atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds (later the Nevada Test Site) show effects on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash and combustibles, and homes pai...
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eas...
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (2011)
Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.
This Is Cinerama (1952)
A standard screen B&W prologue during which Lowell Thomas shows how, from the dawn of history, mankind has attempted to create the illusion of depth & m...
Snow-White (1933)
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."
Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
A young boy and girl, dressed in costumes based on Dutch traditional clothes, find their idyllic, windmill-laden countryside is being over-run by unfeeling, unt...
Baby Face (1933)
Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Ji...
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.
Little Fugitive (1953)
Joey, a young boy, runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother. Joey collects glass bottles and turns them into...
St. Louis Blues (1929)
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sing...
The Navigator (1924)
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
When a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
Faces (1968)
A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their strugg...
Tevya (1939)
Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, he...
Black and Tan (1929)
Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.
Why Man Creates (1968)
Through several amusing live action and animated vignettes, Saul Bass illustrates a fundamental and essential particularity of human nature that keeps us alive ...
The Italian (1915)
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. They are eventually reunited and marry. But lif...
Clash of the Wolves (1925)
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfb...
Tol'able David (1921)
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or r...
Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak.
The Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
13 Lakes (2004)
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
At age two, Gerald McLoy should be at the age where he says his first words. But when the first "words" that come out of his mouth sound more like a broken spri...
Applause (1929)
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter Ap...
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Within Our Gates (1920)
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Big Business (1929)
Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual destruction fights with a homeowner.
Castro Street (1966)
Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie; a film in the form of a street - Castro Street running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California ... switch eng...
Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967)
While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth.
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
Film of the famous airship explosion.
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1992)
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends...
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