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The Girl from Maxim's
🇫🇷 France The 1900sA Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
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Rasputin and the Empress
The 1910s The 1900sThe story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Frisco Jenny
California The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sFrisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. When her underling Dutton proposes killing the DA, she kills the underling and must face execution.
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Smilin' Through
The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sExquisite romance! — John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned when her parents were lost at sea. Kathleen is five, but the years pass and now she is a young woman who is the image of Moonyeen. Willy wants Kathleen for his wife, but Sparks fly when she meets Kenneth Wayne one dark and stormy night. John is horrified for it was Wayne's father who shot Moonyeen dead on her wedding day and John has never found him or forgiven the family. When Ken goes off to war, John forbids any marriage and Ken agrees, while Kathleen does not. When Ken returns four years later when the war is over, he is crippled. He conceals his condition and makes plans to leave for America.
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Back Street
New York Ohio The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA Story that will grip you with its powerful emotional appeal written by one of America's foremost novelists__ A picture with an amazing cast of star players — A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Der Feldherrnhügel
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
The 1910s The 1900sThe demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
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Dance Pretty Lady
England The 1900sDuring the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
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The Public Enemy
Illinois The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sAll his life he took what he wanted...Why not women? — Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Cimarron
Oklahoma The 1920s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sTerrific as all creation! — When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Daybreak
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sAn Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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The Captain from Köpenick
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sBased on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
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Die lustigen Weiber von Wien
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Reserve hat Ruh
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Exile to Siberia
🇵🇱 Poland The 1900sThe story takes place in 1905 and shows us a glimpse of an earlier Russian occupied Poland. After the assignation of the Governor-General, the Russian authorities in Warsaw are bent on finding the conspirators. Ryszard (Adam Brodzisz) is a Polish patriot that is considered a terrorist to the Russians and a hero to the Poles. He manages to find time to fall in love with a woman named Rena before being caught. The Russians know he was part of the plot, but do not know exactly how much he was involved, so he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. But his sweetheart Rena doesn't stand still while he is sent away, so she follows him to Siberia.
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The Flame of Love
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sIn Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
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Melodie des Herzens
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900sA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
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The Case of Lena Smith
The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sA peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.
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The Crowd
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sJohn, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900s The 1890sWatch your own first timid flight of young love unfold before your eyes in this sweet-scented romance. Hear the "Student Prince" music. — A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
The 1910s The 1900sPortrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
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The Gallant Hussar
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The Way of All Flesh
Wisconsin The 1900sThe story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
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Old San Francisco
California The 1900sA Romance of the Days When 'Frisco Was the Paris of America!---The Barbary Coast!---The Fire of 1906!---Massive!---Unprecedented — An Asian villain menaces a family of aristocratic Spanish settlers.
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The First Auto
The 1900s The 1890sSee this picture---it's funny enough to make a horse laugh. — The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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Der Feldherrnhügel
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sComing soon
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Mother
The 1900s The 1910sA story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
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The Duchess of Buffalo
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sZOWSKI! She danced on her toes and put Russia on it's ear! Napoleon's retreat from Moscow wasn't half so sensational as Connie's entry. — An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
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Die dritte Eskadron
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Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1900sAll the mystery, the glamour, the romance that stalk on every side when the clocks strike midnight in gay Paree. — The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Battleship Potemkin
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1900sRevolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun. — A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
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The Merry Widow
The 1900sWhen Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
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Lily of the Dust
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sLily, a poor and friendless orphan, is married to a sensual and elderly Colonel in the German army who divorces her when he finds her with a former officer sweetheart. Introduced by a girl friend to Bohemian society, Lily loses the love of the young officer and marries her former lover, a wealthy art connoisseur.
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Op hoop van zegen
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Bella Donna
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Love One Another
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890sBased on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
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The Murder of General Gryaznov
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1900sRevolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
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Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes
The 1900s The 1890sThis early film biography of the founder of modern Zionism depicts a young Herzl learning about Jewish persecution throughout the ages and developing his theory of political Zionism, which he saw as the only solution to anti-semitism.
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Manolescu's Memoirs
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The Breath of the Gods
California 🇯🇵 Japan The 1900sWhile attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
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Madame Butterfly
🇯🇵 Japan The 1900sThe story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
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The Suffragette
The 1900sNelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
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Hurricane in Galveston
Texas The 1900sSilent film footage of a hurricane in Galveston, TX — Silent film footage of the hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1913.
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