A Cry for Help

German silent film

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius...

This film begins with the invocation of 'almighty god' at a river where several people are gathered. The child god Krishna rises out of the water...

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are...

A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.

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

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...

After attending a funeral, a man returns to a merry-go-round where he once cherished joyful moments with someone deeply significant in his life.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's...

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

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

As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's...