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The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

A pregnant young heiress discovers her suitor is already married. She decides to marry a struggling lawyer to protect her reputation.

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...

While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty,...

Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing...

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing...

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the...

Polin performs a song.

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paved with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves...