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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship with Carol’s bumbling brother, Oogie,…

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York’s Bowery District.

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post.

Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil’s ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy…

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save…

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise…

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only risky cargo he carries; both…

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain…

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society…

“In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves … but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as…

Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business…

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…

Famous actress Norma Shearer’s jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his…

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional…

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they’re forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people’s fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess….

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set…

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England’s peril…

Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the…

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.