![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Sex Madness
This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content...
Keywords: exploitation; melodrama
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Average rating:  (12 reviews) |  |
| The Last Man on Earth
Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic "I am Legend" and later remade as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer.
Keywords: horror; Sci-Fi; Drama
Downloads: 270,141
Average rating:  (37 reviews) |  |
| Abraham Lincoln - D.W. Griffith
A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 96,158
Average rating:  (12 reviews) |  |
| Utopia - Raymond Eger
Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Robinson Crusoe Land) is last film Laurel and Hardy made together. It was filmed and produced in Europe.
Keywords: Laurel & Hardy; Laurel and Hardy; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy
Downloads: 78,347
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| Charlie Chaplin's " The Pawnshop"
Charlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916. The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 77,004
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| The Fighting Lady - William Wyler
"The Fighting Lady," directed by William Wyler, provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier, a vessel that is "enormous, wonderful, and strange to us." After profiling the various activities of the soldiers' day and following the ship's voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese figh...
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| Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman"
Charlie Chaplin's 44th Film Released July 12 1915 A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majectic Studio. The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna (Edna Purviance) and her parents in a park; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley. In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna's father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 86,736
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Rink"
Charlie Chaplin's 58th Film Released Dec. 04 1916 The Rink was Charlie Chaplin's 8th film for Mutual Films. It co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman and Albert Austin. It is best known for showcasing Chaplin's roller skating skills. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007264/
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 74,116
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Champion"
Charlie Chaplin's 38th Film Released March 11 1915 The Champion was a comedy film released in 1915 by Essanay Studios, starring Charlie Chaplin alongside Edna Purviance and Leo White. Essanay co-owner and star, Broncho Billy Anderson can be seen as an enthusiastic audience member in the boxing match scene. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005074/
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 36,984
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
Downloads: 136,022
Average rating: (28 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie Shanghaied"
Charlie Chaplin's 46th Film Released Oct 04 1915 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006032/
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 69,770
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| Night of the Living Dead - Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles)...
Keywords: horror
Downloads: 645,693
Average rating: (87 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie's Recreation"
Charlie Chaplin's 23rd film released August 13 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004518/
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 62,164
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| West of Hot Dog
Silent western starring Stan Laurel before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy. Note: This movie can only be viewed properly using the VLC player. You can download it for free here: http://www.videolan.org/.
Keywords: Stan Laurel; western, comedy
Downloads: 49,541
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |  |
| Escape From Sobibor - Jack Gold
Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience.
Keywords: Alan Arkin; Rutger Hauer; Sobibor; Nazi
Downloads: 189,433
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Hercules
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Adventure
Downloads: 169,967
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Airborne - James Landis
A country boy trains to be a paratrooper at Fort Bragg. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 13,700
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| The House On Haunted Hill - William Castle
Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night in the murderous mansion. Watch for the great Elisha Cook Jr,(he played Wilmer in the "Maltese Falcon") as the groveling homeowner. The eerie looking home used for the exterior shots is the Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924...
Keywords: Vincent Price; haunted house; horror; William Castle
Downloads: 89,270
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia Part I - Frank Capra
"The Battle of Russia," Chapter V of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. Part One shows how the Nazi regime, frustrated by the tenacity of British resistance, sets its sights on the Soviet Union instead. As it follows the Nazi march into Russian territory, the film provides a brief summary of the attempts of foreign powers to invade Russia over the past seven hundred years...
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| M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder - Seymour Nebenzal
This film is nothing less than a masterpiece. It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer. It created the serial kill genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)). M was not only the originator of the genre, but arguably remains it preeminent entry...
Keywords: Thriller; Fritz Lang; German Expressionism; Peter Lorre
Downloads: 129,955
Average rating: (27 reviews) |  |
| Bloody Pit of Horror - Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner. Find out more about this film on it's IMDB page. There are versions of the movie in XviD (DivX), Theora (Ogg Vorbis), PSP (997 MB MPEG4) and iPod (556 MB MPEG4). Please leave a review if you download one of those versions to let me know if they did or didn't work for you.
Keywords: horror
Downloads: 83,790
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| The Power of Nightmares - Adam Curtis
This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure...
Keywords: Adam Curtis
Downloads: 426,365
Average rating: (155 reviews) |  |
| Ape, The
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
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Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Carnival of Souls
Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following. Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her...
Keywords: Thriller; Horror
Downloads: 77,212
Average rating: (34 reviews) |  |
| Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia Part II - Frank Capra
"The Battle of Russia," Chapter V of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. In Part Two, the German army falls victim to the Soviet scorched-earth strategy. The Russian forces flee from the start, retreating deep into their homeland, drawing the Nazis farther and farther away from the German border. As the Red Army falls back, it destroys infrastructure and natural resources, making it difficult for the Nazi army to live off the land...
Downloads: 58,272
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Night of the Living Dead
I did some digital tweaking on Night of the Living Dead to make it more watchable and made it into a DVD image that you can burn.
Keywords: horror, zombies
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| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police station to repo...
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Downloads: 94,103
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| The Phantom of the Opera - Carl Laemmle
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives.
Keywords: silent; drama; horror
Downloads: 94,261
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Lady Frankenstein - Umberto Borsato
From IMDb: When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr...
Keywords: Horror
Downloads: 88,405
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Flight to Nowhere
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 25,844
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| His Girl Friday
Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business...
Keywords: romance; comedy
Downloads: 237,983
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Hot Number
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 38,105
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Brunette
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 98,947
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| The Flying Deuces - Boris Morros
This was the first comedy that Laurel and Hardy starred in without producer Hal Roach, although they had previously been "guest stars" in four MGM movies. After they finished making "The Flying Deuces," they returned to Hal Roach Studios to make films. In order to make this movie, producer Boris Morros bought the rights to the 1931 French film "Les deux legionnaires," which had a similar plot. "The Flying Deuces" was Morros' first independent production and it was shot in continuity over a span ...
Keywords: Comedy; Laurel And Hardy
Downloads: 73,492
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Mclintock - Andrew McLaglen, director
This great comedy western stars John Wayne,Maureen O'Hara,Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers,Chill Wills, and Strother Marten. There is a hilarious mudhole fight scene at the end.
Keywords: John Wayne; comedy; western
Downloads: 56,172
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Baby Love - Guido Coen
Poor Luci, she is a 15 year old English schoolgirl about to embark on a promising career as the high-school mattress when she comes home one day from school to find her Mum as dead as a door knob in the tub. You see her Mum has cut her wrists after a long unrewarding career as the town mattress. Fortunately for Luci, her Mum's childhood friend is now a very successful upper-middle class doctor who has decided to take Luci home to his family (on a trial basis)...
Keywords: Sex; Female Nudity; Lesbian Sex; Lolita; Independent Film; Based On Novel
Downloads: 51,227
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Le voyage dans la lune
By George Melies, an old 1902 film from france about a small group of scientists that travel to space on a rocket to get to the moon.
Keywords: France; 1902; Meilies; sci-fi; b&w
Downloads: 86,583
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Hydrogen Bomb Test - U.S. Government
This is a clip of the Hydrogen Bomb test at Enewetak Atoll on November 1, 1952, and the first time one was exploded. The fireball was big enough to cover most of Manhattan Island. This clip show more of the aftermath of the nuclear cloud than do most films.
Keywords: stock footage; historic; 1952; nuclear energy; nuclear weapon; hydrogen bomb; H-bomb; Enewetak Atoll; explosion; fireball
Downloads: 48,645
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Scrooge - Julius Hagen
Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley's Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography. This is the uncut 78 minute version.
Keywords: Dickens; Scrooge; A Christmas Carol
Downloads: 36,718
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Cherry Knight
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 55,273
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Horror Express
In 1906, on a train racing through Siberia, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are engulfed in nightmare when a frozen missing link comes to life. 2009-11-16: today the mpeg2 file was upgraded. The picture is now sharper, brighter, and wider. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and, with the push of a button, quickly create the structure of a DVD to watch on your television (after burning with ImgBurn or the like).
Keywords: horror; Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee; Telly Savalas
Downloads: 57,136
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man With A Movie Camera)
Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. Startlingly modern, this film utilizes a groundbreaking style of rapid editing and incorporates innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing power and energy. Film pioneer Dziga Vertov uses all the cinematic techniques available at the time - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames...
Keywords: Silent; Documentary
Downloads: 40,332
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much - Ivor Montagu
While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can't talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and ...
Keywords: Hitchcock; 1930s
Downloads: 211,046
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Sheree Tiger Dance
Vintage erotic dance video showing a woman named Sheree dancing first in a tiger-print outfit, then in a bikini.
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 39,815
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Hemp for Victory
US government propaganda film made during WWII touting the virtues of hemp. The film was aimed at farmers at a time when the miltary was facing a shortage of hemp, it shows how hemp is grown and processed into rope and other products. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: propaganda; government film
Downloads: 56,585
Average rating: (19 reviews) |  |
| Film Countdown - Ivan Bridgewater
This is Clip 4 from the Thirtieth Archive release of our stock footage. This is a set of four film Countdowns with a film filter used for effect. This footage is from my personal collection. I have tried to organize these clips with titles and countdowns so they are easier to use. COMMENT: I am releasing these Stock footage Clips for free so that editors who can't afford footage will have access. Please don't try to just sell this footage as stock footage...
Keywords: Bridgewater Video; Stock Footage; Free Stock Footage; BTV; BTV Stock Footage; Stock Footage Thirtieth Archive Release; AVI Stock Footage; Film Countdown; Film Leader
Downloads: 22,940
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| The Lost World - Jamie White
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: adventure; fantasy
Downloads: 119,977
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| The Iron Mask - Douglas Fairbanks
A swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas adventure featuring Douglas Fairbanks. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: adventure; romance
Downloads: 54,483
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Suddenly
"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min.
Keywords: crime; drama; Frank Sinatra; Sterling Hayden; James Gleason; Nancy Gates; Kim Charney
Downloads: 178,008
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Salt Of The Earth - Independent Productions / International Union Of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Tells the tale of a real life strike by Mexican-American miners. The story is set in a remote New Mexico town where the workers live in a company town in company owned shacks without basic plumbing. Put at risk by cost cutting bosses, the miners strike for safe working conditions. As the strike progresses the issues at stake grow beyond that, driven by the workers' wives. At first the wives are patronized by the traditional patriarchical culture, however they assert themselves as equals and an i...
Keywords: labor; feminism; latino
Downloads: 25,877
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
