Summary: "Cora and her younger sister Alice are on their way to Fort William Henry, escorted by the treacherous Magua. They are unaware that the fort, under the command of their father, is besieged by Indians who are in league with the French. The sisters are saved by Hawkeye and his Indian companions Uncas and Chingachgook. Cora falls in love with the noble Uncas, the last of his tribe. But Magua still...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Slingshot Entertainment 2000

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Summary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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Summary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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Summary: In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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Summary: About 1830, Dr. Caligari exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, in a fairground. Cesare tells a student that he will die "before dawn." The student is murdered and his friend suspects Caligari. Caligari orders Cesare to kill a young woman but he attempts to kidnap her instead, is hunted, and dies from exhaustion. Caligari escapes into a lunatic asylum, of which it is learned he is the director, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1996

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Summary: An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1998

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Summary: This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackhawk 1998

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Summary: Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 1998

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Summary: A boy (Matahi) and a girl (Reri) are in love. She is chosen by a high priest to join the ranks of the sacred virgins, thereby becoming tabu to all men. The two escape by canoe to another island for awhile but Matahi becomes indebted to a Chinese merchant. The story ends tragically when Matahi is left to drown by the high priest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lumivision 1992

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Summary: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914): Patrick Couderc is cast in female drag as the Patchwork Girl brought to life by charlatan Dr. Pipt (Raymond Russell). Also stars Jessie Mae Walsh, Mildred Harris and (briefly) Harold Lloyd.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2005

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Summary: Tillie's Punctured Romance (71 min.) : Charlie, the dapper city guy, woos Tillie, the farmer's daughter, to get her father's money. However he just can't seem to get the money away from Tillie to enjoy time with his other girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapevine Video 2012

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Summary: In an aristocratic English family the young lord finds to his horror, while painting his wife's portrait, that as the work progresses life drains from his lady. In this poetic horror film, called by some the most outstanding achievement of this genre, an absolute mastery of editing and rhythm is employed with lighting and Gothic sets combining to impart an unearthly sense of mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Allday Entertainment 2001

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Summary: An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000

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Summary: In Utopia, Stan and Oliver travel to London so that Stan can claim an inheritance; "Mud & sand" is a slapstick parody of a Rudolph Valentino film of the same name; "Stan Laurel home movies" is a collection of footage shot during a tour; In The hobo, Oliver tries to keep his sweetheart; "West of Hot Dog" is a western parody; In Oranges and lemons, Stan works in an orange grove; In Should sailors...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood 2004

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Loop, Liza.

Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006

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Summary: MARK OF ZORRO: As the famous Mexican Robin Hood, Don Diego springs into action as Zorro, the crusader for the rights of the Mexican people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2002

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Summary: The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998

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Summary: The true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

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Summary: Ahmed The Thief is happy to be a vagabond rogue until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess. He must prove himself worthier of her hand than his rival, the evil Prince of the Mongols, who has come to seize the Princess, and Bagdad, for his own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1998

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Summary: Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributer] 2000

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Summary: One of the major works of German silent cinema, Murnau's class drama depicts the fall of the respected, aging, hotel doorman of a posh 1920s Berlin hotel, who is cruelly stripped of his position and reduced to a bathroom attendant, before his fortunes turn and he becomes a millionaire. The film was groundbreaking for its expressive, mobile camera work, which imparts information visually,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2001

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Summary: In The navigator, Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth, and surprisingly little common sense, who finds himself adrift on an immense 500 ft. yacht.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1999

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Summary: The nut: Charlie Jackson, is a Greenwich Village character who invents Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. He uses them to please his friends and his sweetheart, Estrell Wynn, but more often than not, they backfire; The mark of Zorro: Don Diego de la Vega is the son of a wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008

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