John Barrymore
Also Known As: John Sidney Blyth, Jack Barrymore, John Sidney Blythe Barrymore
Biography: John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack. A member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 15, 1882
Age: 143 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 29, 1942
Popularity:
Known For:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-18
Popularity:
Twentieth Century
Overview: A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
Popularity:
Midnight
Overview: An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
Popularity:
Grand Hotel
Overview: Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-25
Popularity:
The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
Popularity:
The Invisible Woman
Overview: Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
Popularity:
Rasputin and the Empress
Overview: The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
Popularity:
The Dream of a Moving Picture Director
Overview: The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-05
Popularity:
The Widow Casey's Return
Overview: Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-17
Popularity:
Just Pretending
Overview: Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea of playing the game on his little sister, Henrietta. He writes a note reading, "I have your children. Put four thousand dollars under the stone on front porch and I will bring them back. They are now hanging by the hair. Blue Beard." He then tells Henrietta to look the other way, and he takes her dolls out of the doll buggy and hides them in the garden. Then he places the note in the rural delivery mailbox at the front gate. A little later a young fellow brings an auto up to the gate and the children plead for a ride. After a little hesitancy he consents and the children are carried away to the park. Mrs. Mills misses the children and finds the note in the mail box. She takes the matter seriously, and gathering a lot of neighbors and a policeman, gives chase to the auto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-05
Popularity:
A Prize Package
Overview: Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young girl, Fannie Fatima. She writes a note on one of the leaves of a book of cigarette papers, declaring she will wed the man who finds it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-05
Popularity:
One on Romance
Overview: Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who can rescue her in some romantic way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-14
Popularity:
The Man from Mexico
Overview: A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-02
Popularity:
The Dictator
Overview: On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-21
Popularity:
The Incorrigible Dukane
Overview: A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's mistaken for a laborer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-02
Popularity:
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
Popularity:
The Red Widow
Overview: An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star and political intrigue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-04
Popularity:
On the Quiet
Overview: Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
Popularity:
Maytime
Overview: An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
Popularity:
Here Comes the Bride
Overview: A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-19
Popularity:
The Test of Honor
Overview: After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-16
Popularity:
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-03
Popularity:
Movie Maniacs
Overview: The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
Popularity:
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Overview: In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
Popularity:
Yesterday and Today
Overview: A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
Popularity:
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Overview: Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
Popularity:
Svengali
Overview: A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
Popularity:
Dinner at Eight
Overview: An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
Popularity:
Life in Hollywood No. 4
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
Popularity:
A Bill of Divorcement
Overview: A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-28
Popularity:
Counsellor at Law
Overview: A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
Popularity:
Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-07
Popularity:
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
Popularity:
Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
Popularity:
Spawn of the North
Overview: Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
Popularity:
Tempest
Overview: In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
Popularity:
Don Juan
Overview: If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-06
Popularity:
Eternal Love
Overview: In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
Popularity:
The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
Popularity:
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Overview: Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-16
Popularity:
When a Man Loves
Overview: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
Popularity:
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
Popularity:
State's Attorney
Overview: Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-20
Popularity:
Beau Brummel
Overview: George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
Popularity:
True Confession
Overview: A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
Popularity:
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Overview: Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
Popularity:
The Mad Genius
Overview: A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
Popularity:
The Great Profile
Overview: An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
Popularity:
Arsène Lupin
Overview: A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-26
Popularity:
National Red Cross Pageant
Overview: The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
Popularity:
Topaze
Overview: An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
Popularity:
Vagabonding On The Pacific
Overview: Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150 miles off the West coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
Popularity:
Reunion in Vienna
Overview: An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-16
Popularity:
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Overview: A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-14
Popularity:
Moby Dick
Overview: Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
Popularity:
The Sea Beast
Overview: Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-15
Popularity:
Playmates
Overview: Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-26
Popularity:
Long Lost Father
Overview: A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-19
Popularity:
Hold That Co-ed
Overview: An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
Popularity:
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Overview: A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
Popularity:
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
Popularity:
General Crack
Overview: The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-16
Popularity:
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
Popularity:
Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
Popularity:
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Popularity:
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
Popularity:
The Horror of It All
Overview: A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-23
Popularity:
The Great Man Votes
Overview: In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
Popularity:
The Circus: Premiere
Overview: Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
Popularity:
Land of Liberty
Overview: This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-15
Popularity:
The Golden Twenties
Overview: Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-08
Popularity:
Night Club Scandal
Overview: When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
Popularity:
World Premiere
Overview: A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-21
Popularity:
The Man from Blankley's
Overview: When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-28
Popularity:
The Lotus Eater
Overview: Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he takes off on a balloon trip to China.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-27
Popularity:
Hollywood Goes to Town
Overview: This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
Popularity:
Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
Popularity:
That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
Popularity:
Romance in the Dark
Overview: A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-24
Popularity:
Okay for Sound
Overview: This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-07
Popularity:
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Overview: This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-16
Popularity:
Nearly a King
Overview: A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-20
Popularity:
The Lost Bridegroom
Overview: Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-20
Popularity:
It's Showtime
Overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
Popularity:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Overview: Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-25
Popularity:
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
Overview: A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-04
Popularity:
An American Citizen
Overview: A young American broker at large in London.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-10
Popularity:
Are You a Mason?
Overview: Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells her that the "incident" was actually an initiation rite of the Masons, knowing that his wife has always wanted him to join the group. She excitedly tells her father about Frank's becoming a Mason, since her father is also a Mason. What neither she nor Frank know is that her father has actually been doing the same thing Frank is--pretending to be a Mason when he actually isn't. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
Popularity:
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Overview: For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
Popularity:
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Overview: Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
Popularity: