Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 4: Provincial Variations

Parisian Love (1925)/Down To The Sea In Ships (1922)

Category: Silents | Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

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Clara Bow really has "It" in this silent double feature. First, in "Parisian Love," she's a French thief who woos, then rips off, American tourists. When her lover is killed by a wealthy man, Bow joins ... more

Free To Love (1925)/My Lady Of Whims (1925)

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Raymond McKee

Legendary screen temptress Clara Bow stars in this silent double bill. First, Bow plays an orphan who, after being released from a reformatory, is taken in by the judge who sent her there. Clara tries ... more

Dancing Mothers (1926)

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle, Clara Bow

Silent melodrama that ruffled more than a few feathers with what was considered its controversial ending. Trying to protect her flirtatious daughter (Clara Bow) from a notorious playboy, a woman sets ... more

Wings (1927)

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Clara Bow, Charles [Buddy] Rogers, Richard Arlen

Thrilling aerial combat scenes highlight director William Wellman's silent WWI saga, winner of the first Best Picture Academy Award. Richard Arlen and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are small-town best friends, ... more

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz's Fantasies

Category: Silents | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

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Pioneering animated filmmaker Wladyslaw Starewicz is spotlighted in a compilation that includes "The Ant and the Grasshopper" (1911), a live-action version of Gogol's "Christmas Eve" (1913), and the ... more

Early Russian Cinema, Vols. 1 And 2: Beginnings/Folklore And Legend

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

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Includes the documentary "A Fish Factory in Astrakhan" (1908); the first Russian dramatic production, "Sten'ka Razin" (1908); "Princess Tarakanova" (1910); and an adaptation of Chekhov's "Romance with ... more

Man With The Movie Camera (1929)

Category: Silents | Director: Dziga Vertov | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Mikhail Kaufman

Innovative avant garde silent film by Dziga Vertov that uses the camera lens as the audience's "eye," embarking on a bizarre chronicle of Soviet life filled with trick photography and strange sights. ... more

Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Category: Silents | Director: Dziga Vertov | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Mikhail Kaufman

Innovative avant garde silent film by Dziga Vertov that uses the camera lens as the audience's "eye," embarking on a bizarre chronicle of a typical day in the Soviet Union and filled with trick photography ... more

The Cigarette Girl Of Mosselprom (1924)

Category: Silents | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Yulia Solnetseva, Igor Ilinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli

Exuberant social comedy relates the story of a cigarette-hawking streetwoman who sees her fortunes change when she's accidentally thrust into the world of show business by being cast as a lead in a movie. ... more