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90° South: With Scott to the Antarctic

Earth Day · Photography · Documentary

This spellbinding chronicle of Captain Robert Scott's race for the South Pole features narration by photographer Herbert Ponting, quoting directly from Scott's recovered journal on the final days of his failed expedition. Hauntingly beautiful imagery of Antarctic landscapes and wildlife act as lasti…

The AIDS Show

Documentary · History

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

About Tap

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Music & Dance

About Tap features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. By introducing viewers to a unique history of dance, director George Nierenberg strives to answer the question, “How does an artist disco…

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Animation · Fantasy · Silent

Lotte Reiniger's stop-motion silhouette animation tells a magical tale of a prince, a flying horse, a wicked sorcerer, a princess who can transform into a bird, and even, Aladdin! Beautifully restored with color tinting and a new orchestral recording of the magnificent original score by Wolfgan…

Alfred Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache

Short Films · War · Drama

While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.

Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage

Short Films · War · Drama

A short absorbing drama of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed this forgotten classic in 1944 to aid the French resistance.

Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache

Short Films · War · Drama

Two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed these forgotten classics in 1944 to aid the French resistance.

Alma's Rainbow

Comedy · Lesbian · Drama

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

Araya

Documentary · History

Margot Benacerraf captured the life of the Venezuelan saliñeros in this masterpiece of poetic filmmaking. A forerunner of feminist Latina cinema, Araya won the 1959 International Critics Prize in Cannes.

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

Documentary · Biography

A Hollywood star at age two, Baby Peggy was a has-been at 11, forced to perform in vaudeville to support her family. As Diana Serra Cary, she became an author and advocate for children's rights.

Back to God's Country

Thriller · Adventure

In BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY, Nell Shipman plays a beautiful young woman trapped on an ice-bound ship. The captain, a murderous fugitive, will stop at nothing to have his way with Shipman. With only the help of a ferocious dog at her beck and call, she must stave off the captain's advances and escape wi…

Back to God's Country: The Films of Nell Shipman

Western · Thriller · Silent

THE FILMS OF NELL SHIPMAN features two extraordinary motion pictures starring early independent producer, writer, conservationist and actor Nell Shipman, including an ice-bound thriller and a hilarious romp across the West.

The Beggar Maid

Romance · Silent

Inspired by Edward Burne-Jones' painting "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid", an artist plays matchmaker for a nobleman and a servant girl in this romantic short classic with an original score by Ben Model.

The Big Animal

Comedy · Drama

A camel is left on couple's doorstep in this gentle parable about tolerance, directed by Jerzy Stuhr, written by Krzysztof Kiewslowski and filmed by Oscar-winner Pawel Edelman.

Big Stakes

Comedy · Western · Native and Indigenous Americans

A cowboy falls for a betrothed señorita in this rip-roarin' ride across the plains of Western cinema, full of complex looks at Mexican and American stereotypes.

Bushman

Drama · Docudrama

Bushman tells the story of a young Nigerian who settles in the Bay Area at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and is falsely accused of terrorism during events at a university strike. With irony, poetry, and a delicate touch, David Schickele’s unshakeable debut sets up a thoughtful and provocativ…

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Documentary · Biography

CAPTURED ON FILM deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore Marion Davies' one-of-a-kind life and work.

Chac: The Rain God

Drama · Adventure

Based on the culture of the Popul Vuh, CHAC: THE RAIN GOD follows a village's attempts to solve a terrible drought by sending their best and brightest to a diviner in the mountains.

The Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town

Documentary · History

For almost a decade Fort Lee, New Jersey was the filmmaking hub of the US. That golden age is celebrated in this documentary — along with silent films preserved by the Library of Congress. 

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

Earth Day · Silent · Drama

The team that went on to create King Kong — Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack — made this suspenseful drama of a Thai family whose very existence is a constant struggle against the jungle animals around them 

The Clay Bird

History · Drama

A family is torn apart by religion and war when young Anu is sent from his loving home to study at a strict madrasah in the months leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.

Come Back, Africa

History · Docudrama · World Cinema

In making this mixture of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin’s aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a South African ghetto where Black citizens formed their own vibrant community and culture. Rogosin spent a year meeting with locals in order to capture th…

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

Documentary · History · Drama

Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.

Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt

Documentary · History · Biography

The Memorial Quilt was started by the NAMES Project in the summer of 1987...and by the fall of '88, the quilt had grown to include 8,288 panels. Through on-the-scene documentation, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman wove the NAMES Project's efforts to memoralize AIDS victims into an emotion…

The Connection

Jazz · Drama

In a downtown loft, a group of junkies gather to wait for their connection... while a clueless documentarian attempts to film them. Clarke's film was banned on release and remains powerful and transgressive.

The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy

Drama

Brothers Victor, Jose and Felipe are enlisted by Miss Malloy to restore her Victorian mansion on the Hudson so she can host one last party before she dies. 

Cut to the Chase: The Charley Chase Comedy Collection

Comedy · Silent

With two of his most sought-after titles and multiple collaborations from director Leo McCarey, this collection features more than five hours of comedy from the height of Charley Chase’s career. 

Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro

Short Films · Documentary · Animation

CUT-UP: THE FILMS OF GRANT MUNRO features a cavalcade of animated classics, live-action films and unreleased archives from the director known for his talent and all-out goofiness for over fifty years.

The Daughter of Dawn

Native and Indigenous Americans · Western · Drama

Lost for almost a century, this rousing melodrama of love and jealousy was filmed in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma with an all-Native American cast of Kiowa and Comanche actors.

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

Documentary · History · Art

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney bring the bustling streets of three-hundred-year-old China to life through their analysis of the 72-foot-long seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" by Wang Hui.

The Dragon Painter

Romance · Silent · Drama

Long considered lost, THE DRAGON PAINTER survives today as a shining example of Asian-American cinema, starring Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai) as a delusional hermit recruited by a famed artist to pass on his legacy.

The Dumb Girl of Portici

Romance · Silent · Drama

Long lost, this thrilling drama features the work of two great women artists: filmmaker Lois Weber and prima ballerina Anna Pavlova

Dziga and His Brothers

Documentary · Biography

Using rare archival footage from Russian film archives, Dziga Vertov and brothers' lives are traced from Bialystok to Moscow, Paris, and the Hollywood hills.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 10: The End of an Era

Romance · Silent · Drama

Three short films (The Revolutionary, For Luck and Behind the Screen) from the end of Tsarist Russia round out this collection of cinematic history.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies

Fantasy · Silent · Drama

Featuring 3 surviving films from director Ladislas Starevich, including The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913), Christmas Eve (1913), and The Lily of Belgium (1915).  

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 4: Provincial Variations

Silent · Drama

Two films in pristine-as-can-be condition showcase how smaller provincial entrepreneurs broke their way into early Russian cinema.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 5: Petr Chardynin & Pushkin

Comedy · Silent · Drama

This volume features two brilliant adaptions from the great Alexander Pushkin's work, including The Queen of Spades (1910) and The Little House in Kolomna (1913).

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 6: Class Distinctions

Silent · Drama

The Peasants' Lot (1912) and Silent Witnesses (1914) present two different touchstones of early Russian cinema and views at late-Tsarist economic struggles.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

Comedy · Silent · Drama

These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and dark melodrama of early Russian cinema.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 8: Iakov Protazanov

Fantasy · Silent · Drama

Two films from esteemed Russian director Yakov Protazanov come together in this collection of cinematic history.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 9: High Society

Comedy · Silent · Drama

This volume includes a short comedy (Antosha Ruined by a Corset) a film by director Evgeni Bauer (A Life for a Life) and newsreel footage of an adored Russian star's funeral.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend

Short Films · Silent · Drama

This two-volume set features a half-dozen selection of some of Russia’s earliest cinematic productions.

Early Russian Cinema: A Unique Anthology in 10 Volumes

Comedy · Silent · Drama

Banned by the Soviet government and unseen for more than seventy years, these 26 pieces of cinematic history reveal the underappreciated excellence of filmmaking in Czarist Russia.

The Edge of the World

Romance · Drama

Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven).

Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon

Documentary · History · Film

In the early twentieth century, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon shot local footage of people in the north of England going about their daily activities, preserved and restored to offer a look back in time with an original score by In the Nursery.

The Exiles

Native and Indigenous Americans · Documentary · Drama

From dusk to dawn, a group of young Native Americans in Los Angeles, hang out, dance, drink, flirt, and remember life on the reservations they have left in this glistening black-and-white film.

Filibus

Crime · Silent · Drama

Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus steals from the rich… before mysteriously vanishing into the clouds. But when famed a famed detective sets out to catch her, this cross-dressing master criminal has other plans. Newly remastered and restored by the Eye Filmmuseum.

From the Archives of Modern Art

Short Films · Documentary · Drama

In six hilarious and sometimes bawdy short films, artist Eleanor Antin charts the career of one of her many personas — Eleanora Antinova, the once celebrated African-American ballerina of Diaghlev’s Ballets Russes.

The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man

Documentary · History · Art

Philip Haas’s eye-popping film covering Australian Aboriginal artwork takes viewers through the stunning, painstaking step-by-step processes of preparing paintings by desert tribesmen.

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

Documentary · Silent · Adventure

Filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong) link up with part-time spy Marguerite Harrison to film the treacherous migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia.

Hindle Wakes

Romance · Silent · Drama

Directed by Maurice Elvey, this British adaptation of the popular stage play provides laughs, thrills and revelations about women's liberation for audiences on both sides of the pond!

Household Saints

Romance · Religion · Comedy

Nancy Savoca’s chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family boasts memorable performances from Vincent D’Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, and Michael Imperioli, and showcases a unique voice in 1990s independent filmmaking.

I'm Going Home

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

Michel Piccoli is a Parisian theater actor struggling to deal with grief, age, and a demanding American film director played by John Malkovich in this powerful masterpiece by Manoel de Oliveira.

In the Land of the Head Hunters

Native and Indigenous Americans · Photography · History

In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia to work with members of the Kwakwaka'wakw to create a film celebrating the art and culture of this Native American people.

John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon

Short Films · Family · Animation

Showcasing his wide-ranging talent and emotional resonance, MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT TOON features animated shorts from across John Canemaker's storied career.

Killer of Sheep

Drama

Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. 

Kings of the Water

Documentary · Religion · Art

In KINGS OF THE WATER, director Philip Haas follows a painter of sacred temples in Benin, exploring West African art, religion, and passion for one man's craftsmanship.

Legong: Dance of the Virgins

Romance · Drama

Filmed entirely in Bali in 1935, LEGONG: DANCE OF THE VIRGINS is a tragic tale of love denied featuring a new restoration and soundtrack by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Let There Be Light

Documentary · War

Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality.

Maborosi

Romance · Drama · World Cinema

After the mysterious death of her husband, a young mother remarries and moves with her son to a remote seaside village in the first feature by director Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters).