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95 Miles to Go
Before "Everybody Loves Raymond" debuted, Ray Romano was one of the top touring comedians in the country. At the height of his sitcom's popularity, Romano revisited his stand-up roots, hitting the road with long-time friend and opening act, Tom Caltabiano, who decided to film the tour. This ultimate fly-on-the-wall...Start your free trial to watch -
Everything Is Better Now
EVERYTHING IS BETTER NOW is an infomercial on the importance of ambiguity in life. The main presenters start out with a cheerful and upbeat presentation but slowly become lost in their examples and drift into a personal argument regarding a handwritten note. The camera work and the editing move from a...Start your free trial to watch -
Just Write
In this 1997 comedy, Harold (Jeremy Piven: "Entourage," OLD SCHOOL, THE GOODS, SMOKIN' ACES) is a tour bus driver. While visiting a good friend in a cafe, Harold spots his favorite actress, Amanda Clark (Sherilyn Fenn: "Twin Peaks," WILD AT HEART, BOXING HELENA). When Harold sees Amanda sitting alone, he decides to introduce...Start your free trial to watch -
Float
Ray Fulton (Gregory Itzin), the workaholic owner of a suburban ice cream parlor, is abandoned by his neglected wife (Cristine Rose). Ray now has to face mid-life and moves into the bachelor pad of his two twenty-something employees (Hrach Titizian, Johnny Asuncion). Things get wacky as Ray tries to adjust to single life and...Start your free trial to watch
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
Joe Sawyer and William Tracy return in another wacky service comedy, Sawyer as the exasperated sergeant of a GI trainee (Tracy) who remembers everything he has ever heard. Their misadventures include reassignment to Korea, an enemy spy and the offer of a Congressional Medal of Honor for Sawyer, if he can...Start your free trial to watch -
The Battle of Russia
The fifth and longest film in Frank Capra's acclaimed WHY WE FIGHT WWII propaganda series, THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA portrays the bitter fighting on the Eastern Front 1941-1943. It also attempts to justify the new alliance among the democratic Allies and Soviet Russia. Here, the Nazi invasion of Russia is...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cry of Jazz
Filmed in Chicago and finished in 1959, THE CRY OF JAZZ is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race: a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known...Start your free trial to watch -
Music Makers of the Blue Ridge
This film was made in 1964 for National Public Television. It's considered the very first film to look at bluegrass music and the people who made it famous. The film has been purchased by the Library of Congress and is considered and American classic. Many songs and dances are presented in addition to...Start your free trial to watch
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Castle of the Living Dead
When a travelling troupe of performers accept a commission from the mysterious Count Drago (Christopher Lee: DRACULA, THE WICKER MAN) and fail to heed the warnings of a local witch (Donald Sutherland: M*A*S*H, DON'T LOOK NOW), they find themselves trapped in the CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD. Terror ensues as...Start your free trial to watch -
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as...Start your free trial to watch -
I Passed for White
A beautiful young woman meets and marries the man of her dreams, only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white. She soon discovers that happiness cannot be founded on a lie. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film.Start your free trial to watch
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Cast Me If You Can
Hiroshi is an actor who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father. Often mistaken for someone else, even for a kidnapper, Hiroshi struggles daily with his marginalized existence. But one day, his luck changes. Hiroshi meets his muse, aspiring actress Aya, who...Start your free trial to watch -
With These Hands
An unscrupulous and beautiful proprietor of a London health clinic (Georgina Ward) offers her randy clients "added extras," but after administering the spankings she ruthlessly blackmails the customers. However, when a mysterious stranger appears on the scene, she gets a taste of her own naughty medicine....Start your free trial to watch -
Bandaged
Old-style horror blends with forbidden love in this period thriller. Lucille lives with her domineering father and great aunt in a creepy mansion out in the middle of nowhere. She's about to turn eighteen and longs to go to college to study poetry, but her surgeon father insists the sciences are the way to go. Feeling as...Start your free trial to watch -
Ice
It is the Apocalypse. The drastic change in environment causes every male on the face of the Earth to die out by 2012. Most of the remaining women perish after fighting in a world war over their territories. The mere 20,000 survivors huddle together in the Shinjuku area which has become an ocean of trees. Within this small,...Start your free trial to watch
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Sand
William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. A successful Shakespearian actor on Broadway who had worked with Margaret Mather and other stars, William S. Hart went on to become one of the first great stars of the motion picture western. SAND was Hart's first film for his own...Start your free trial to watch -
Land of Hunted Men
A band of outlaws is terrorizing a town in the West. Leave it to Ray "Crash" Corrigan and his "Range Busters" to ride in and save the day. This film marked the return of Corrigan to the famous series; he had appeared in the first sixteen movies but left for a brief hiatus following 1942's ARIZONA...Start your free trial to watch -
French Cops Learning English
Consider how you might create a language lesson for a silent film and then marvel that Georges Méliès somehow managed it. Although not an unqualified success, the police officers attending the English School under the management of Miss Blackford learn to conjugate "to have" and get to cuddle some female...Start your free trial to watch -
A Cottage on Dartmoor
A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR is perhaps the most significant rediscovery. A tense, shocking thriller that stylistically evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema, it is also an innovative work in its own right. From the dramatic opening night scenes on the...Start your free trial to watch
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Rag Doll
Pop star turned actor Jess Conrad plays singing crook Jo Shane who attracts the eye of naïve runaway Carol (Christina Gregg) in this film slice of delinquent crime nostalgia. When Carol falls in love with Jo, he uses his charm to turn her against her new-found keeper Wilson (Kenneth Griffith). When he tries to break into...Start your free trial to watch -
The Wind of Change
Set against the Notting Hill race riots of the late 1950s, THE WIND OF CHANGE is a gripping kitchen-sink drama focusing on the relationship between a father (Donald Pleasence), a world-weary yet liberal man who spends all his spare time looking after his rabbits, and his rebellious, unemployed son Frank...Start your free trial to watch -
Tall Headlines
A dramatic British film of a family torn apart by their eldest son Ronnie being hanged for the murder of a young girl. George and Mary Rackham (André Morell and Flora Robson) try to erase the memory of Ronnie and the ghoulish attention of neighbors by moving away from their family home and changing the family name. Their...Start your free trial to watch -
A Place to Go
Set in and around Bethnal Green, this classic example of "kitchen sink" drama plays out against the background of the slum clearances in London. A PLACE TO GO portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water when the man of the house (Bernard Lee) leaves his docker's job to take to the streets as an...Start your free trial to watch
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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE is the critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea. As recounted through the eyes of fellow emigrant Rene Daalder, Ader's story...Start your free trial to watch -
Pig Death Machine
After eating rotten meat, a brainless brunette is transformed into a dangerous genius, while in a Doctor Doolittle twist, a misanthropic-punk-rock-botanist-babe gains the power to "talk to plants." Dreams become nightmares as they choke on the sweet nectar of envy and desire.Start your free trial to watch -
The Animal
A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who never speak, appear at the window; an old woman calls them away. First isolation, then alienation, overcome the couple. The woman has...Start your free trial to watch -
Black Sunday
In one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in movie history, Mario Bava bridged the gap between the gothic horror picture and the European art film with BLACK SUNDAY (aka LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO or THE MASK OF SATAN). Made in 1960 and now considered a cult classic, it continues to reverberate through the cinema,...Start your free trial to watch
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (IL ROSSO SEGNO DELA FOLLIA). Stephen Forsyth stars as John Harrington, the head of an affluent fashion house, who harbors...Start your free trial to watch -
The House of Exorcism
After some distributors found LISA AND THE DEVIL too mystifying for release, producer Alfredo Leone (with Mario Bava's uncredited assistance) hired veteran actor Robert Alda, shot additional scenes and transformed LISA into THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM, capitalizing on the popularity of demon possession films....Start your free trial to watch -
Lisa and the Devil
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, LISA AND THE DEVIL (LISA E IL DIAVOLO) is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. Elke Sommer stars as a tourist in Spain who, upon seeing the image of a bald, grinning devil in an...Start your free trial to watch -
S.O.S. Iceberg
In a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fanck's Bergfilme ("Mountain Films"), S.O.S. ICEBERG (S.O.S. EISBERG) takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, Karl Lorenz (Gustav Diessl), is stranded on a steadily-eroding iceberg. A rescue crew, led by the heroic Johannes Krafft (Sepp Rist),...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dancing Pig
Silent films owe a great deal to the vaudeville tradition; its short, unrelated stage acts were not only a nearly inexhaustible source for early film content, but also a programming model for nickelodeon theaters. THE DANCING PIG was a mind-boggling music hall routine filmed several times for different companies here, for...Start your free trial to watch -
California Election News
The notorious fake CALIFORNIA ELECTION NEWS was secretly produced by MGM in 1934 for the film industry's campaign against Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle" and many other works. Sinclair's EPIC (End Poverty in California) platform won him a landslide Democratic nomination for governor. Terrified at...Start your free trial to watch -
Philips Broadcast of 1938
This astonishing advertising film made in 1938 for Philips Radio in Holland is the work of a brilliant animation pioneer, George Pal. In the process Pal called "puppetoons," puppets composed of numerous interchangeable wooden parts are filmed frame-by-frame. Pal devoted a month of work to this five-minute...Start your free trial to watch -
Life of a Cowboy
According to the opening title card, Edwin S. Porter, the director of LIFE OF A COWBOY, insisted that this film was the first Western and that THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (from three years earlier) was actually a crime film. Porter, however, didn't shirk on crime in this ambling look at life in a frontier...Start your free trial to watch
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A Day in the Life of a Coalminer
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COALMINER is a bit of a misnomer as this short from the Kineto Production Company (which specialized in actualities and educational films) economically assays a day in the life of a coal mine. Bookended by a coalminer leaving his cottage for work and a middle-class family sitting...Start your free trial to watch -
A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman
Rudy Buckhardt made this comic lark at the Southampton home of his artist friends Anne and Fairfield Porter, both of whom also star alongside painters Larry Rivers and Edith Schloss. The film's title evokes a mundane slice of life but a kindhearted maid catches a lucky break when her enchanted feather...Start your free trial to watch -
The Physician of the Castle
Two crooks lure a rich doctor away from his family so they can kidnap his wife and son to hold for ransom. This anonymous silent short of German or Austrian origin instructs in pre-Griffith cross-cutting between parallel action to create suspense as well as the use of cross-cutting close-ups to heighten...Start your free trial to watch -
Her Torpedoed Love
Keystone comedienne Louise Fazenda plays another hick with a heart of gold, one ill-used by her layabout husband but fully appreciated by the elderly invalid who employs her as his cook. When it's discovered the latter will leave her his considerable fortune, his scheming butler (Ford Sterling) plots to...Start your free trial to watch



