In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...

The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...

In this tale of temptation and redemption, the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country man is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city. She tries to persuade him to drown his virtuous wife and come back to the city with her.

A naive country man falls for a cold-blooded city woman who persuades him to drown his wife in order to be with her.

All songs are traditional Haudenosaunee-Iroquois chants and melodies.

A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in an effort to restore life to her dead fiancé.

A naive country man falls for a cold-blooded city woman who persuades him to drown his wife in order to be with her.

Having pioneered the art and technology of cinema during its infancy (organizing a system of film production at the Gaumont Studios in France), Alice Guy Blach ̌moved to the United States where she co-founded the Solax Company, where she served as head of a production. Enjoying complete creative freedom, she explored long-form storytelling, alternating between serious dramatizations of the early Twentieth-century American experience.