An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
Starring Max Charlier and Mlle Loisier, is a very rare and considered many years a lost film. Gaumont catalogue no 1590, the title was changed in "La terroriste."
Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.
Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
O filme ilustra a vida de Diogo Alves, um espanhol que veio viver para Lisboa e que, entre 1836 e 1839, perpetrou vários crimes hediondos, muitos deles instigados pela sua companheira Parreirinha. São invocados os assassinatos, os assaltos, a denúncia. O criminoso é, por fim, apanhado pelas autoridades e sentenciado à forca.
Directed by Albert Capellani.
In 1916 the Santiago society shuddered with the crime of a wealthy businessman. Corina Rojas, his young wife, was the first woman sentenced to death in Chile and her story inspired the first national feature film.
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kyiv, in the then Russian Empire, in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the Beilis trial or Beilis affair.
A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
O marinheiro Roger Byam (Franchot Tone) acompanha o capitão Bligh (Charles Laughton) e Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) em uma viagem de navio ao Taiti. Bligh mostra ser um verdadeiro tirano e, depois de seis prazeirosos meses no Taiti, Christian lidera um motim entre a equipe para voltarem à casa.