Landmark silent and early sound cinema.
Landmark silent and early sound cinema. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 71 THE SYLLABUS:
Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 revolution epic. Its Odessa Steps sequence is still one of the most studied scenes in film history.
A 1930 avant-garde short by Sergei Eisenstein, an experiment in image and music.
D.W. Griffith's colossal epic weaving four stories across 2,500 years, with Babylon sets so big they stood in Hollywood for years.
A women's club in Wisconsin Dells falls asleep during a lecture on the Soviet threat and wakes up in a Russian collective. Amateur satire, 1932.
Fritz Lang's 1919 silent drama, Harakiri. An early work from the director of Metropolis, in German intertitles.
Walter Huston plays Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, orator, husband and Civil War commander. D. W. Griffith's 1930 biopic.
Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet silent about a 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. Masterclass in montage.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D. W. Griffith's 1921 melodrama, Orphans of the Storm.
Eisenstein's 1929 Soviet film, also called Old and New, about dragging village life into the modern age. His last silent.
D. W. Griffith's 1916 epic cuts between four eras of human conflict. Giant sets, giant ambition, shot by Billy Bitzer.
D. W. Griffith's 1922 silent melodrama, titled One Exciting Night. Expect a night of mischief.
D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama, shot by Billy Bitzer. It has a famous ice floe finale, and Lillian Gish out in the cold.
Erich von Stroheim's 1924 epic of a lottery win and a marriage that gold slowly poisons. Sprawling, bleak and legendary.
A 1919 silent feature drama from D.W. Griffith.
D. W. Griffith's 1918 World War I drama with Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. Made as wartime propaganda, so view with context.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D. W. Griffith's 1921 melodrama set during the French Revolution. Billy Bitzer shot it.
D. W. Griffith's 1919 silent drama, shot by Billy Bitzer. A melancholy, fog-wrapped story of the London docks.
D. W. Griffith's 1923 silent drama, The White Rose. A small-scale story from the director's later period.
Lillian Gish and Robert Harron star in D. W. Griffith's 1919 rural romance. A shy farm girl, a lot of heart.
D. W. Griffith's 1920 silent, shot by Billy Bitzer. A South Seas melodrama from the director's post-epic era.
D. W. Griffith's 1920 silent drama, The Love Flower. A tropical romance by the master of the melodrama.
A 1912 silent short, The Mender of Nets. A quiet seaside story, plainly told.
Douglas Fairbanks plays Coke Ennyday, a 'scientific detective', in this gloriously weird 1916 comedy. Nothing else quite like it.
D. W. Griffith's 1916 epic, Intolerance, here with Spanish subtitles. Four eras of human conflict, intercut with huge sets.
Part 1 of D. W. Griffith's 1924 American Revolution epic. Lots of muskets, lots of history, lots of Griffith.
Sergei Eisenstein's first film: a 1923 comic short built to run inside his stage production. Gags, pratfalls and early montage.
Ernst Lubitsch's 1921 silent comedy, The Wildcat. A German-era Lubitsch romp from before Hollywood came calling.
Eisenstein's 1925 landmark of a ship's mutiny and the massacre on the Odessa steps. Spanish-titled copy.
The second half of D. W. Griffith's 1924 epic of the American Revolution.
Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1920 silent, Prastankan (The Parson's Widow). A Scandinavian classic from a master of stillness.
The spectacular Babylon sequence from D. W. Griffith's 1916 Intolerance. Towering sets, huge crowds, siege and spectacle.
Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet silent about a 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, with Portuguese text. Montage mastery.
Edwin S. Porter's 1905 chase comedy, in which a burglar makes his getaway by sliding down a rope.
Richard Barthelmess stars in D. W. Griffith's 1919 silent, Scarlet Days. A western with a very Griffith title.