Movies

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

An adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to...

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the...

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...