The young owner of a flower shop falls for the lawyer of the firm that wants to tear her building down. John Boles, Jean Muir, Charles Butterworth, and Ruthelma Stevens star in Orchids To You.

Maria Perschy, Joachim Hansen. An unbelievable film, based on true accounts. During the horrific years of World War II, Hitler instituted "love" camps for furthering the Aryan race. Beautiful young German girls were put in these camps and forced to mate with Aryan "studs". Incredible. 35mm.

Young Cavalry lieutenant Niles Ord sets out to peacefully capture renegade Shoshone chief Black Eagle. However, Ord's commanding officer, Roland Dane (Edward Platt), stubbornly refuses to let Niles attempt to bring the Shoshone in without bloodshed. Dane's ignorance results in tragedy.

Steven Banning, an American businessman, is found murdered in a Tokyo warehouse, surrounded by crates of opium. Refusing to believe her brother was involved in drug trafficking, his sister Cheryl travels to the Orient to clear his name. She meets his business partner, Roger Mansfield, who agrees to help find Steven's killer. Their investigation points to a disgraced British soldier, Thomas Putnam, who controls Tokyo's drug trade. He instructs his agents to kill the inquisitive Americans....

Origins Of The Motion Picture (1956): The amazing discoveries in science and technology that led to the creation of the motion picture camera and projector are presented in this fascinating history. DaVinci's camera obscura, the Zoetrope, exotic Victorian picture wheels, Muybridge's famous photography of galloping horses are a few of the many high points featured in the story of the creation of the industry that gave birth to Hollywood.Lumiere Premiere Program (1895): This is the actual...

Grizzled old prospector "Bedrock" Brown searches the Alaskan frontier for his friend Hank Jones, who disappeared during an expedition. He stops at a trading post, where Hank's young daughter Joy waits for news of her father's whereabouts. Disheartened that Bedrock has been unable to find him, she sneakily follows the frontiersman out into the Alaskan mountains. Bedrock vows to deliver the little girl back home, but his boat is capsized by melting glaciers. Now the pair must navigate the...

Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D.W. Griffith's epic tale of two sisters caught in the turmoil of the French Revolution. Henriette brings her blind sister, Louise, to Paris in hopes of a cure. When Henriette is kidnapped by a lustful nobleman, her helpless sister is left to wander the streets. Rescued by the aristocrat Chevalier (Joseph Schildkraut), Henreitte desperately attempts to locate her lost sibling. During the Reign Of Terror, she is accused of consorting with the aristocracy, and...

Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in this D.W. Griffith classic about two sisters caught up in the turmoil of the French revolution. Griffith weaved factual accounts from history into the spellbinding story, which is still fascinating a century after it first moved audiences!

"Take another wonderful trip with the two greatest wild animal photographers of all time, the Johnsons..."The first wildlife program to air on television, Osa's Big Game Hunt premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952. Predating NBC's Wild Kingdom by 10 years, the series featured the world-famous explorer, Osa Johnson, hosting clips of her and husband Martin's astounding expeditions to Africa in the 1920s and 30s. Osa personally selected the footage to be used in the program from her...

When American heiress Pearl Saunders (Constance Bennett) marries Sir George Grayston (Alan Mowbray), everyone thinks it's a brilliant match. Sir George is delighted with Pearl's money, and Pearl is in love with her new husband's title in director George Cukor's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's biting stage comedy, Our Betters. Marital bliss quickly ends when Pearl discovers that Sir George has no intention of abandoning his philandering ways. She decides to match him affair for affair,...

Three girls, three guys, three roads to happiness -- and perhaps not all of those roads lead there. A trio of Depression-era shopgirls deals with big-city life and also yearns for Mr. Right (or Mr. Right Now!) in Our Blushing Brides, a film that joins earlier trendsetters Our Dancing Daughters and Our Modern Maidens to form the trilogy of Joan Crawford movies that define the passions and plights of jazz-baby youth. Chief among the blushing bevy, of course, is above-the-title, Crawford as...

Times are hard during the Great Depression. So a group of unemployed workers, led by urban couple John and Mary Sims, take up residence on a communal farm to try to fend for themselves. In this companion piece to his silent classic, "The Crowd" (1928), writer/director King Vidor appears to question capitalist values while painting a compelling picture of the struggle and hardships faced by Americans during this troubled economic period. The film is not without its entertaining moments. Nor has...

A social document of amazing vitality and emotional impact! - The New York TimesLost souls, haunted by vice, seek a better future on an gritty "back to the land" commune in King Vidor's Great Depression epic drama. Idle masons, plumbers and carpenters are put to work creating, while former white-collar professionals are retrained in the art of manual labor. But all utopias have a dark side. Despite the overriding pioneering spirit; lust, proffering and deceit tarnish the ideals of the...

John and Mary were at Hell's crossroads, beaten down by the Great depression. Rather than stay in the city, they flee to the country where they start a farming commune. Overcoming the local authorities, and weather that makes farming impossible, they not only survive, but thrive! Directed by the great King Vidor (The Crowd, Duel in the Sun), the film stars Karen Morley and Tom Keen, and features cinematography by four time Oscar nominee Robert H. Planck (Little Women, Anchors Aweigh). It's an...

In Our Dancing Daughters, Joan Crawford stripped to her teddy and tore into a Charleston powered by a zillion watts of sexual energy -- and shocked the corsets and cravats off parents who'd heard disturbing rumblings of what their children were up to. But the younger generation couldn't get enough: they'd found their icon of Flaming Youth. Crawford became a star in this milestone silent about a good girl who hides her heart behind a party-girl mask and loses the man she loves to a gold digger....

Joan Crawford stripped to her teddy and tore into a Charleston powered by zillion watts of sexual energy & shocked the corsets and cravats off parents who'd heard disturbing rumblings. All's fair in the war between three friends to win a rich husband, three beautiful women who live in a world of nonstop parties, dancing, drinking and their quest to catch a millionaire in the Jazz Age classic Our Dancing Daughters! While making the rounds of nightclubs, dances, picnics and yacht parties, young...

Also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascal, this is a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

The miracle of Fatima is portrayed on screen for the first time in this rare film, presented as part of the long-running religious TV anthologyFamily Theatre! In the small village of Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children observe an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Their faith causes doubt and unrest among the villagers, but an even greater miracle is about to occur...Family Theatre began as a radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1947. Its host, Father Patrick Peyton, was founder...

In the 1950s, America adopted Our Miss Brooks as its very own. Emmy winner Eve Arden starred as Connie Brooks in the long-running radio and TV series about a wisecracking high school English teacher. The movie provides all the TV show's charm and laughter plus a dividend for fans: their Miss Brooks is finally locked in the loving arms of the handsome but incredibly bashful biology teacher Philip Boyton (Robert Rockwell). The film also adds a bittersweet edge to the comedy as Connie mends a...

A radio show spin-off in the 1950s, this TV sit-com stars Eve Arden as an opinionated and sometimes satirical English school teacher. With Gale Godon and Richard Crenna.

A radio show spin-off in the 1950s, this TV sit-com stars Eve Arden as an opinionated and sometimes satirical English school teacher. With Gale Godon and Richard Crenna.

With kohl-rimmed eyes and rouged lips, flapper fatale Billie Brown demands to live life on her terms, not society's. So she brazenly vamps a handsome diplomat in hopes of furthering her fiance's career. It's a perfect plan -- until Billie loses her heart to the diplomat. In a follow-up to her trendsetting silent Our Dancing Daughters, Joan Crawford returns to the role of a reckless Jazz Age baby getting her kicks with torrid kisses and wild parties. Crawford is joined by her Daughters co-star...

Raised by their Bible-obsessed, invalid mother, seven children care for her and one another in a gloomy Victorian house. The mother dies, and the children, terrified of being separated and even more terrified of the outside world, build a graveside shrine to her in the backyard and carry on as if nothing has happened. When their long-lost father shows up, he seems to fall in with their plans. Then the children begin to realize he has a different plan altogether. Dirk Bogarde is marvelously...