B-westerns and frontier justice.
B-westerns and frontier justice. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 40 TUMBLEWEED:
Cowboy star Bob Custer battles rustlers and rescues the heroine in a B-western from the last days of the silent era.
Western Europe in 1951 has three million more mouths to feed every year. Part of a six-film series checking on postwar recovery.
Dick Bailey's friend is killed by a mystery attacker, and the trail leads toward Stack and a crooked sheriff. Richard Arlen stars.
A rancher's daughter and a cowboy fall in love, until a rejected Easterner steals the father's horse and frames the cowboy. Early silent excerpts.
Mary Pickford heads west in the Gold Rush and finds an outlaw living under her murdered uncle's name. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
A 1954 series on Black achievement: Maude E. Callen's clinic, General Benjamin O. Davis and Dr. F.D. Patterson, plus other newsmakers.
Jimmy Henderson, searching for his missing father, joins a gang by posing as the outlaw the Oklahoma Cyclone. Bob Steele stars.
Girls' teams play basketball in front of a three-story brick school. A very early motion picture, filmed from the sideline.
A silent-era Western with a title that thunders. Details are thin beyond the genre and the era.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
A Western Electric sound film promo that, ironically, has no sound. Early talkie tech, silently selling itself.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
William S. Hart plays an outlaw who ends up wearing the lawman's badge. Gritty silent Western, Hart style.
On the eve of the Civil War, saboteurs threaten railroad construction, and Army Captain John Nelson, played by Sterling Hayden, is sent to stop them.
A 1930 western built around the legend of Billy the Kid.
Invicta asks whether women really fought in the Roman arena as gladiatrices.
Mary Pickford heads west during the gold rush to live with her uncle and finds trouble waiting. Cecil B. DeMille directs.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
A congressman's son fights a monopolistic water power company that has parched his district. Roy Rogers sings through a 1938 western.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
A 1922 silent western, Sky High.
Nurse-midwives ride the Kentucky hills for the Frontier Nursing Service. Marvin Breckinridge filmed her cousin's humanitarian work in 1930.
A silverback gorilla named Oliver sits down and eats an apple. Pure, simple, and very focused munching.
Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration in Willits, Cain Rock, Arcata and Eureka mark the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Part I.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
An anti-war remix that turns footage of the 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front into a study of war's toll on the mind.
More Golden Spike festivities as California celebrates the Northwestern Pacific Railroad finishing its line in October. Part II.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Jack Hoxie and Marceline Day star in a 1925 western.
A young German soldier, inspired by his teacher's patriotic speeches, enlists in World War I. Lewis Milestone's 1930 anti-war epic.
Time-lapse of a J-2X rocket engine being assembled at NASA's Stennis Space Center.
Victor Sjöström stars in a 1918 Swedish silent about an outlaw and his wife on the run in the wilds of Iceland.
Walter F. Walter is named Secretary of Public Works for Liberia, and radio broadcasters get their moment. An April 1945 newsreel for Black audiences.
A 1920 silent starring Nell Shipman, titled Something New.
Nell Shipman stars in a 1919 adventure set in the Canadian north, with sled dogs and wilderness.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Mary Pickford plays two very different young women in this 1918 silent drama, Stella Maris.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Jack Hoxie rides again in Back Fire, a 1922 western.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Gilbert M. Anderson's Broncho Billy is held captive by an outlaw in this 1914 Essanay western short.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Will Rogers stars in a 1919 comedy-drama as a wandering tramp named Jubilo.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
A silent Western starring Tom Mix, from the early days of the genre. Horses, hats and a hero called Sage Brush Tom.
Outlaw Steve O'Neil robs a stage, kidnaps Nita and heads for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. A 1930 Western.
A 1923 western starring Jack Hoxie.
A comedy western with an all little-people cast, made in 1938. A famously odd curio, and a dated novelty for its time.
Broncho Billy commits a robbery, but a preacher inspires a change of heart. A 1915 Essanay short starring Gilbert M. Anderson.
B-westerns and frontier justice.
Jack Hoxie rides again in Riders of the Law, a 1922 western.
A 1917 silent, The Man from Tia Juana.
William S. Hart's 1925 western about the Cherokee Strip land rush, when settlers raced to claim the plains.
Mary Pickford is the spirited Rebecca in Marshall Neilan's 1917 silent, a girl sent to live with her strict aunts.
French Marshal Foch arrives at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor for a tree-planting ceremony with Mrs. John Spreckels.
John Ford's 1926 western: three outlaws protect a young woman during the Dakota land rush.
Three outlaws on the run in the desert find a dying mother and her baby in Hell's Heroes, a 1929 western from a young William Wyler.
William S. Hart rides into a lawless 1916 western town where a meek preacher is badly outnumbered.
A feckless partner loses half the ranch to a gambler, and Wes Channing has to stop a mine swindle. A 1925 silent western.
A suspicious cowboy trails a smooth-talking "novelist" and a gang to their mountain hideout. A 1920 silent western about smuggling on the border.
A drifting cowboy rescues a rancher from bandits, gets a job, and falls for the boss's partner's daughter. A 1925 silent western.
A man seeking a TB cure in Arizona's dry air is turned away in Tucson, until the sheriff's daughter points him toward the desert. A 1925 silent western.
Prospector Jack Remsen loses his mine, is branded a horse thief, and stays put to keep a promise. A 1925 Bill Mix silent western.
A 1903 Billy Bitzer short whose title promises a frontier flirtation. Very early film, barely a minute of it, and made to be watched in a flash.
Chapter 1 of Lightning Bryce, the 1919 serial starring Jack Hoxie.