Lillian Gish Movies

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival...

Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

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

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen...

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in...

New York, summer 1983. Jeanne Moreau goes to meet Lillian Gish to film a portrait of her. The star of American silent films invites her to her...

A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a...

Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.

A group of youth come of age in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies, bringing...

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of...

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a...

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and...