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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
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Buster Keaton is on the mighty Mississippi, traveling in the old sidewheeler days. Buster plays a spoiled young man from Boston who is forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of riverboating.
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The Little Tramp - The Charlie Chaplin Collection - Disc 5 (2006)
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Charlie Chaplin was the cinema's first "superstar." Widely hailed as a comic genius, he developed his screen persona of the luckless "Little Tramp" early on. Soon he was directing his own films and refining movie comedy from pie-in-the-face broad slap
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Mother (1926)
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Classic early Soviet-era silent film. In 1905, a young man (Nikolai Batalov) joins a revolutionary group that is planning a strike at the local factory. His father (Aleksandr Chistyakov), an abusive drunk, joins a group of strike breakers. When the
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
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Clopin (Ernest Torrence) bought Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) from gypsies when she was a little girl. Jehan (Brandon Hurst), the twisted evil brother of the Archdeacon, orders Quasimodo (Lon Chaney), the Hunchback of Notre Dame, to kidnap Esmeralda.
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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One of the most important films of the 20th century. Mandatory viewing for all film school students and often imitated by its graduates. Based on historical events, the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the first and most famous examples of German Expressionism, and its influences can still be seen and felt in cinema today. Murder and mystery lurk in the hills of Northern Germany.
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The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)
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This is the third and best known Paul Wegener film about the Golem, and alongside "Nosferatu" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," survives as a fine specimen of early German Expressionism.
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The Goat (1921)
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Another treasure from the silent era. Buster Keaton is mistaken for a notorious outlaw and runs around town evading capture.
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The Lost World (1925)
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Explorer Professor Challenger claims that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula.
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The Ring (1927)
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Alfred Hitchcock called this silent film the second real Hitchcock movie. It is the only film that he directed where he was also the sole writer. It stars One-Round Jack Sander (Carl Brisson), a circus sideshow boxer whose streak of first-round knockouts
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