Charlie Chaplin's famous "tramp" travels north, to the Yukon Klondike region of Canada, to try his hand at prospecting gold. As you would expect, his luck is not with him and he instead finds loneliness, unrequited love, and cooked boot as his only food source. Charlie Chaplin's "tramp" captured the audience of the time and
Eisenstein's 1925 communist propaganda film tells the story of a mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in 1905. The mutiny aboard the Potemkin was part of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1905 and set the stage for the revolution that came in 1917. Eisenstein's film highlights the inequity between the working class sailors and the elite officers
Continue reading ➞ Battleship Potemkin (Бронено́сец Потёмкин) (1925)
"I am human like other men ~ ~ I will not be cheated of my happiness! A lonely phantom, Chaney, haunts a French opera house and takes an interest to a new singer, Christine (Philbin), in the Faust cast. He mentors her from the shadows and plots to separate her from her lover Raoul (Kerry).
An old feud between two southern families is rekindled after a lost heir, Willie McKay (played by Keaton), returns to his hometown to claim his father's estate. Optimistically returning by way of an odd stage coach meets train, he is unaware of the dangers that await him. When he is invited over to the house
A 10 year old fervent Nazi youth, Jojo (played by Roman Griffin Davis), struggles to find his place in the declining Third Reich. Jojo is a young fatherless child, being raised alone by his mother Rosie, played by Johansson, coping and working his way through life. This black comedy satire set in Nazi Germany brings
