Cobra

In Cobra, an impoverished Italian nobleman (Rudolph Valentino) takes a job with a New York antique dealer and falls in love with the secretary. Complications arise when he makes a date with the antique dealer's wife (Nita Naldi) who mysteriously is murdered at the appointed meeting place. Cobra was released in late 1925, a few weeks after what proved to be Valentino's comeback feature, The Eagle. Watch below ...

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Off The Grid | A Family's Journey

In 2006, Les Stroud produced a special documenting his family's journey to building an off-the-grid home. The show, Off the Grid with Les Stroud, chronicled the process of buying property and refitting an old farm house with solar and wind power, a rain catcher and well, as well as the adjustments the Stroud family had to make to adapt to this style of living. This films depicts their journey. Watch below, on Google Video, or another YouTube source. ...

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Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator who fought at the Colosseum in Rome. Dramatized film which uses reconstructions, stunt fights and computer-generated images of ancient Rome to tell the story of Verus, a gladiator who fought in the opening games of the Colosseum in AD80. The film also tells the story of the Colosseum itself, built ...

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US History: An Overview

A short discourse on American History from the Khan Academy. You can watch the episodes directly from the Khan Academy page by clicking on the title of the episode you want to view. The first episode, Jamestown to the Civil War, is embedded below from their YouTube site. US History Overview 1 - Jamestown to the Civil War US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression US History Overview 3 - WWII to Vietna ...

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Shattered

One of the key films of the German kammerspiel movement, this silent work chronicles the tragic repercussions of a furtive love affair between a railway worker's daughter (Edith Posca) and her father's supervisor (Werner Krauss). Subtitles in English. Kammerspielfilm is a type of German film that offers an intimate, cinematic portrait of lower middle class life. The name derives from a theater, the Kammerspiele, opened in 1906 by a major stage ...

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Great Guy

Great Guy (1936) is a crime film starring James Cagney and Mae Clarke. It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in the hospital. The new man, pugnacious Johnny Cave, steps on the toes of influential merchants and gets increasing pressure, both political ...

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The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind is a classic 1936 science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, directed by Robert Stevenson and was released in Great Britain by Gainsborough Pictures. The film was also known as The Brainsnatcher or The Man Who Lived Again. Boris Karloff has developed a method of transferring not the brain but the incorporeal mind from one being to another.This film has all the right elements for a spooky movie ...

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The Fourth Marriage of Dame Margaret

The Fourth Marriage of Dame Margaret, considered a rare and obscure film, is based on a true story by Kristofer Janson, a turn of the century popular and acclaimed Scandinavian author. A rather simple story of a very poor young man, Sofren, who is selected over two other applicants to become the parson of a small rural village. According to the custom of the parish, the wife of the deceased parson, the elderly Dame Margaret, has the right to marry ...

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Earth Revealed

This series shows the physical processes and human activities that shape our planet. From earthquakes and volcanoes to the creation of sea-floor crusts and shifting river courses, Earth Revealed offers stunning visuals that explain plate tectonics and other geologic concepts and principles. Follow geologists in the field as they explore the primal forces of the Earth. This series can also be used as a resource for teacher professional development. Due ...

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Warner Brothers Bloopers

These are most of the surviving Blooper reels produced by The Warner Club an organisation comprising Warner Bros Stars and Crew. These reels were produced most years and shown at their annual dinner to poke fun at the mistakes that had been made during that year's productions. Watch the playlist, the first episode, below, or at The Internet Archive. Includes stars Eddie Acuff, Eddie Albert, Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Humphrey Bogart, Walter ...

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Les Vampires

Les Vampires (French for "The vampires") is a 1915/1916 ten-part silent film serial. It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as "Irma Vep" a femme fatale whose name is a suspicious anagram of "vampire." The serial is set in Paris and follows the exploits of a gang of master criminals (known in the period as an "Apache gang") who call themselves "Les Vampires." Olivier Assayas 1996 movie Irma Vep, with a story line of ...

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Pathé Films

Pathé or Pathé Frères films produced by the Pathé Brothers of France. Founded as Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers Company) in Paris, France on 28 September 1896 by brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé, during the first part of the 20th century, Pathé became the largest film equipment and production company in the world as well as a major producer of phonograph records. The driving force behind the film operation was Charles ...

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My Man Godfrey

With witty dialogue and fresh performances, this one's the best of Depression Era films, and a classic by any standard.. No matter how many times I watch, My Man Godfrey makes me laugh. The values and plot eerily echo current times. A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Stars William Powell and Carole Lombard. Watch it on YouTube, below ...

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The Sheik

This movie literally catapulted Rudolph Valentino into ever-lasting fame, but most people have never actually seen the movie.  You havem't seen it? You're kidding me! Well, it's time you watched The Sheik. Afterward, you won't ask why Valentino is the reigning sex symbol of his era.  Synopsis: A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan ...

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Manufacturing Consent

Man­u­fac­tur­ing Con­sent: Noam Chom­sky and the Media directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Win­ton­ick, partly based upon the book, presents the pro­pa­ganda model and its argu­ments, and a biog­ra­phy of Chom­sky. Chom­sky, the eighth most cited source of all time, is also con­sid­ered the "most cited liv­ing author" as well as the lead­ing critic of US for­eign policy. Using the pro­pa­ganda model, Man­u­fac­tur­ing Con­sent posits that cor­po­rate ...

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