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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brad Pitt

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Kelly

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Dujardin

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Van Dyke

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifton Webb

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Bogdanovich

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Dern

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dan Dailey

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louise Brooks

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carter DeHaven

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Hudson

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Hutton

A breakthrough opportunity comes when internationally - renowned director Park announces an open call for his new film, and Jang begins intense...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oh Dal-su

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Gatiss

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harold Lloyd

Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Baby Peggy

In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Donnelly

Documentary about the life of silent film star Francis X. Bushman

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Francis X. Bushman