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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, ...
The Volunteer
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The Volunteer

Jan. 10, 1944

The Volunteer

After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred ...
The Battle of San Pietro
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The Battle of San Pietro

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this ...
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

The fifth film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union ...
The Memphis Belle
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The Memphis Belle

Apr. 13, 1944

The Memphis Belle

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on ...
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic ...
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl’s monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the ...
Night Mail
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Night Mail

Jan. 13, 1936

Night Mail

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the ...
Day of Freedom
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Day of Freedom

Dec. 30, 1935

Day of Freedom

The armed forces of the Third Reich, particularly the German army, are presented as an efficient system of bodies and machines at the seventh ...
Man of Aran
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Man of Aran

May. 06, 1934

Man of Aran

A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a ...
Man with a Movie Camera
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Man with a Movie Camera

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
The Eleventh Year
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The Eleventh Year

May. 14, 1928

The Eleventh Year

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
Moana
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Moana

Jan. 07, 1926

Moana

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly ...
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

A man (Thomas Edison’s assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second ...