With original archive footage, film excerpts and reconstructions, the life and career of Georges Méliès, who elaborated most of the techniques that have been used throughout the century. Including original archive footage, film excerpts and reconstructions, this extraordinary documentary retraces the life and career of Georges Méliès, who visualized and elaborated most of the techniques that have been used throughout the century (special effects,...

This short silent film, made by the American Mutoscope & Biograph company and directed by the famous D. W. Griffith, is an extremely abbreviated version of Willian Shakespeare's marriage comedy The Taming of the Shrew.

This silent classic is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lon Chaney gives a memorable performance as Quasimodo, the noble bell-ringer who falls in love with the beautiful Esmerelda.

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.