Summary: Twenty two of the best early films directed by D.W. Griffith which helped shape cinematic narrative for two generations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA D.W. G

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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAB

Summary: The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlok (Nosferatu, the vampire), leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1997

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOS

Summary: A somnambulist commits murders at a hypnotist's bidding in this German expressionist horror classic. Also featured on this videodisc is an excerpt of "Genuine: a tale of a vampire", a 1920 release which reunited "Caligari's" creative team.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1996

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAB

Summary: Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation where a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment 1997

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPE

Summary: Don't change your husband: Leila Porter, tired of her dull husband, leaves him for another man who turns out to be a two-timing playboy. Leila then encourages her first husband to pursue her again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed Exclusively by Image Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DON

Summary: An understudy at the Paris Opéra is guided to stardom by a mysterious and compelling voice that emanates from behind the walls of her dressing room. The voice eventually summons her to a meeting, and she discovers a sinister man whose face is covered by a mask. He demands that she give up her fiancé and devote herself to him and her music. She agrees, but he later finds she has deceived him and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment 1997

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR Pha