Num pequeno lugar da fronteira holandesa, um misterioso hipnotizador, Dr. Caligari, chega acompanhado do sonâmbulo Cesare, que, supostamente, estaria adormecido por 23 anos. À noite, Cesare deambula pela cidade, concretizando as previsões funestas do seu mestre, o Dr. Caligari.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Com roteiro co-escrito por Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel estreou como diretor neste curta-metragem, o marco inicial do surrealismo no cinema. Com clara influência da psicanálise, Buñuel e Dalí exploram o inconsciente humano, numa seqüência de cenas oníricas, incluindo o célebre momento em que um homem, interpretado pelo próprio diretor, corta, com uma navalha, o olho de uma mulher.

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) é uma respeitável viúva da alta classe média, que sente-se frustrada mas reencontra o amor ao se apaixonar por Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), seu jardineiro. Apesar de ser 15 anos mais velha e ter um casal de filhos já crescidos, ela decide assumir esta paixão. Entretanto Cary encontra preconceito em vários de seus amigos íntimos e até mesmo nos filhos, que não aceitam que a mãe tenha tal relação.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

Um dos primeiros filmes da história mostrando a chegada do trem a estação de Lá Ciotat, França.

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

Um dos primeiros filmes produzidos no cinema americano, notável como um dos primeiros filmes que apresentou uma narrativa, que contou uma história. O funcionário da estação de trem é assaltado e deixado amarrado por quatro homens, em seguida, eles roubam o trem ameaçando o operador. Eles roubam todo o dinheiro e atiram num passageiro antes de fugir. Uma menina descobre o funcionário amarrado e avisa ao xerife, que sai junto com seus homens à caça dos bandidos. Algumas cópias do filme tem algumas cenas colorizadas a mão.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Primeiro longa-metragem do diretor Luis Buñuel, essa obra surrealista tenta passar o desconforto e o espanto com imagens cruas de morte, espancamento, fetichismo e, no final, um epílogo com um conto do Marquês de Sade.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

O percurso de duas famílias - os sulistas Cameron e os nortistas Stoneman - durante a Guerra Civil Americana e os anos que se seguiram.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.