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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Dan Hanlon
Released by Universal in 1916, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was the first great special effects spectacular of early cinema. Based on the Jules Verne novel, the story concerns a team of scientists...
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365 Nights in Hollywood
365 Nights in Hollywood
Alice Faye

This rare look at Harlow starlet Alice Faye before her big box office makeover shows her singing, dancing and romancing in a musical comedy filled with hope, glamour and happiness. As a...

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8 1/2
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into...
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Edwin L. Marin

In this one-of-a-kind feature, Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is charged with investigating the slayings of members of an organization known as "The Scarlet Ring". When...

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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln'
D.W. Griffith

Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Thomas Mitchell

This classic tale from author Mark Twain was brought to the small screen for the first time in the 1950's and features Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine. This classic novel features the tales of...

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Aelita, The Queen of Mars
Aelita, The Queen of Mars
Nikola Tsereteli
Russia's first big budget science fiction spectacular. Aelita, the Queen of Mars is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow who dreams of Aelita and builds a spaceship to take him...
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Africa Screams
Africa Screams
Abbott and Costello in Africa
Charles Barton

Stanley Livingstone (Lou Costello) is a timid book salesman who has memorized a map from a rare book, which leads to a hidden diamond mine in Africa. Livingstone's friend, Buzz Johnson (Bud...

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The Amazing Adventure
The Amazing Adventure
Romance and Riches
Alfred Zeisler

Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) has just inherited a large fortune but is miserable, since he did not earn any of the money. In an attempt to break this feeling of boredom, he wages with his friend that...

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Amazing Mr. X
Amazing Mr. X
Turhan Bey

A rich young widow longs to establish contact with her deceased husband, who perished in a car crash several years earlier. However, a cunning medium (The Mad Ghoul's Turhan Bey) has other...

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