A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.
1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.
Early Balkan footage.
A six minute film of the funeral of the murdered Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena, of which all has been lost, save for 17 seconds. Emilianos was murdered on October 1st, 1911.
The mayor's daughter gets hitched in style in the Kent market town.
Dans sa première partie, le film raconte l'épisode biblique de la captivité des Hébreux en Égypte à l'époque du pharaon Ramsès II (Charles de Rochefort), leur exode vers la Terre Promise, la traversée de la Mer Rouge, Moïse (Theodore Roberts) recevant les tables des Dix Commandements.
La seconde partie se situe dans les années 1920. Elle relate l'histoire des deux fils d'une femme bigote (Edythe Chapman), l'un mauvais garçon (Rod La Roque), l'autre sérieux (Richard Dix), qui convoitent tous deux la même jeune femme.
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
Jimmie Shannon est fortement amoureux de Marie, mais il est tellement timide qu'il n'ose pas se déclarer. Un jour, il apprend qu'il est héritier d'une immense fortune à la seule condition de se marier le jour même.
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Follows the life of Catholic Priest John Bosco (1815–1888).
Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
A Swedish short film taking us inside Värmdö church for the Christmas holiday.
'Little Joe' Jackson, un joueur incorrigible, promet à son épouse, la pieuse et vertueuse Petunia, de renoncer au jeu. Mais à la première occasion, il se rend dans un casino où, à la suite d'une bagarre, il est mortellement blessé. Parvenu dans l'au-delà, 'Little Joe' rencontre les représentants du ciel (Le 'Général') et de l'enfer (Lucifer 'Junior') ; en raison de ses engagements à renoncer définitivement au jeu et à devenir un bon époux, et avec l'aide des prières de Petunia, un sursis lui est accordé, avec une 'mise à l'épreuve' de six mois. Mais de retour sur terre, 'Little Joe' est soumis à la tentation par 'Junior', lorsqu'il rencontre la séduisante chanteuse Georgia Brown...
En 1858, à Lourdes, la jeune Bernadette Soubirous a la vision d'une femme, qu'on ne tarde pas à identifier à la Vierge Marie.
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. There are mental and physical wounds to heal, fields to plough, the church to rebuild. But a top Nazi, knowing the War is lost, has infiltrated the town and is fostering dissent and disunity.
Devant l'incapacité des régents, le jeune Ivan décide de se faire couronner. Mais sa tante, qui voudrait voir son fils Vladimir sur le trône, avec la complicité des boyards, fait empoisonner la tsarine. Ivan se retire alors dans un monastère. Le peuple rappelle Ivan.
The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…