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Last updated April 22, 2024
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis documentary traces the life and work of "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, legendary silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself.
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Broken Blossoms
1919 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsCheng Huan migrates to England hoping to sow the seeds of Buddhism's pacifist canons. Instead, he ends up as an opium addict in London's seedy Limehouse district. There, he rescues an abused waif, and romance blooms as he nurses her back to health.
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Intolerance
1916 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn D.W. Griffith's monumental epic, four stories spanning two millennia illustrate how intolerance has played a pernicious role in such historic events as Christ's crucifixion and the fall of Babylon.
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Orphans of the Storm
1921 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDirector D.W. Griffith's silent classic follows the plight of orphaned sisters Henriette and Louise, who travel to Paris hoping to find a cure for Louise's blindness. But trouble befalls them as soon as they arrive.
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Way Down East
1920 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsLillian Gish stars as Anna Moore, a naïve New Englander duped into a sham marriage by a man who deserts her after she gets pregnant. When the infant dies, Anna leaves Boston, changes her name and finds shelter in a tranquil farm community.
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Sweet Liberty
1986 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this lighthearted comedy, the life of history professor Michael Burgess gets upended when a film crew invades his town to turn his scholarly bestseller about the American Revolution into a silver-screen saga of lust, duplicity and intrigue.
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The Birth of a Nation
1915 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThe fates of two families intertwine in this controversial silent drama, a period saga that recounts the genesis of the U.S. Civil War, the destruction it wrought upon the populace and the ascent of the Ku Klux Klan in the war's aftermath.
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