Movies

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation...

Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local...

Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.

A troubled veteran returns home to resume his life, but first he must fulfill a dreadful family obligation.

Narrated by Rod Steiger, this documentary examines the frightful conventions from which the modern-day horror movie has evolved, featuring clips from...

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel,...

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between...

Bruce Lawton discusses Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith (1922), a film that Keaton had dismissed as a "lesser" work.

A short documentary on Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922), regarding how the events of Fatty Arbuckle's trial and William S. Hart's quick...

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not...

A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.

Short documentary about Buster Keaton's first venture into features.

Documentary on the making of The Dark Power.

A mysterious assemblage of men use led by a man in red use a tarot deck to determine what punishment to mete out to those they've already determined...

Two women initiate their friend into the joys of evangelicalism.

A glimpse at how genre film-focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

Documentary about Buster Keaton's The 'High Sign' (1921) and Keaton's developing style.

Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921).

An exploration of La Oroya, an Andean smelting town caught in the tides of pollution and capital drain. The film charts U.S.-led industrialization...