John Barrymore Movies

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to...

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the...

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to...

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.

Brazilian documentary film directed by Salvyano Cavalcanti de Paiva that showcases the evolution of Brazilian artists in the American film industry...

A history of horror movies.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and...

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.