A ship castaway causes problems.
A successful lawyer has to defend the brother he had had lost sight of years before.
Travelogue about the ship S.S.Patria to the Dutch East Indies, made as a commercial for the shipping company Rotterdamsche Lloyd.
A short, silent crime film in which a trader in Mexican goods has to bring a shipment of contraband to the Mexican rebels. But someone leaks this plan to the police.
A short, silent romantic drama about a count who goes to work in a New York restaurant because of his money problems. When his daughter, who knows nothing about the situation, comes to eat in the same...
A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.
A romantic drama in which the alcoholic father of Liza disapproves of his daughter’s relationship.
A melodrama set during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...