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Carl Davis
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
Hitler's Germany: The people's community, 1933-1939: The harsh outcome of the first world war left Germany ripe for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party's swift rise to power, promising a devastated nation's return to international prominence. With its stark, eye-catching iconography and Aryan ideals, the Third Reich set the stage for the 20th century's second world war.
Hitler's Germany: Total war, 1939-1945: Continuing the in-depth look at Hitler's...
6) Widows' Peak
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
When a stranger moves to Widows' Peak, she turns the town upside down with her devious lies and shocking secrets. She seduces the men, enrages the women, and unleases a major scandal, but its all part of an astonishing plan.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A professor forced into retirement and a policewoman suspended from the force team up for romance and crime-solving.
Looking for Aristotle: Oliver is an involuntarily retired professor with a yen for Beethoven, jazz, and puzzles of all kinds. Diane Priest is a WPC (Woman Police Constable) whose suspicions about a superior officer get her booted from the force. They team up on a journey that Oliver thinks will lead to love, since Diane's name is an...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffers an agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge. He attempts to right the long-ago wrong and sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction.
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen by an international audience.
13) The big parade
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
The highest-grossing silent film of all time, as well as the first realistic war drama, tells the harrowing story of a young man's (John Gilbert) front-line experiences in World War I. The film fiercely captures the heroism of the ordinary foot soldier struggling to survive, and how James' determination to return to the village girl he loves faces the ultimate test.
14) Safety last!
Series
Criterion collection volume 662
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
None
Formats
Description
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
15) An angel for May
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
While playing in a deserted farmhouse, a boy named Tom is whisked back in time to World War II. Tom is guided by a dog, and becomes friends with a young evacuee named May. The three set off on an adventure with consequences they won't forget.
16) Speedy
Series
Criterion collection volume 788
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
None
Formats
Description
It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
17) Our hospitality
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Willie McKay is a New York man who returns to his southern Antebellum home to find himself embroiled in a longstanding feud between his family and that of the woman he loves.
18) The big parade
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Formats
Description
The highest-grossing silent film of all time, as well as the first realistic war drama, tells the harrowing story of wealthy James Apperson (John Gilbert) who deploys as a soldier to the front lines in France in World War I. The film fiercely captures the heroism of the ordinary foot soldier struggling to survive, and how James' determination to return to the village girl he loves faces the ultimate test.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
20) The kid brother
Series
Criterion collection volume 964
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Formats
Description
When a traveling medicine show rolls into town, it brings with it excitement, the possibility of love, and a chance for Harold to prove his mettle. Deftly balancing Lloyd's brilliant sight gags and thrilling set pieces, which include an epic, knock-down, drag-out fight aboard an abandoned ship, the film is a hilarious and heartwarming high-water mark of early screen comedy.