Deserted Palaces

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive...

Audiovisual view for decisive days in a life of a lightly hearing person.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and...

Karin, a young girl, gets an hour free from school. She spends it across the street from the school, in the apartment of an older photographer.

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and...