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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Zvenigora / The Enchanted Place | Dovzhenko, Alexander | 1927 | Soviet Union |
Zvenigora is a 1928 Soviet silent film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. A grandfather who trades in salt (Nikolai Nademsky) looks after his two grandsons, the idealistic nationalist dreamer, Pavlo (Les Podorozhnij), and the... |
The General | Bruckman, Clyde | 1926 | United States |
The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film, inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great... |
Mat / Mother | Pudovkin, Vsevolod | 1926 | Soviet Union |
Based on the 1906 eponymous novel by Maxim Gorky, Mother explores a working-class woman's political awakening during the Russian Revolution of 1905. Pelageya (Vera Baranovskaya) can't understand why her son (Nikolai Batajov) is... |
Irish Destiny | Dewhurst, George | 1926 | Ireland |
Irish Destiny is a 1926 film made in the Irish Free State, directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising in April 1916. The film follows an Irish Republican Army soldier who is... |
Bronenosets Potemkin / Battleship Potemkin | Eisenstein, Sergei M. | 1925 | Soviet Union |
This international cinematic masterpiece portrays revolutionary events that preceded the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. In 1905 following the Sino-Russo War, sailors of the Potemkin protest poor conditions, stirring riots on board as... |
America | Griffith, D.W. | 1924 | United States |
Director D.W. Griffith's sweeping account of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), based on Robert W. Chambers' 1905 novel The Reckoning. In Massachussetts in the mid-1770s, British renegade officer Capt. Walter Butler (Lionel... |
Janice Meredith | Hopper, E. Mason | 1924 | United States |
A love story between major events of the American Revolutionary War (1775+1783). A disguised British aristocrat and a wealthy landowner's daughter fall in love, but the war and major political events keep them apart. His war ventures earn him the... |
J'accuse! / I Accuse (1919) | Gance, Abel | 1919 | France |
J'accuse is a 1919 French silent film directed by Abel Gance. It juxtaposes a romantic drama with the background of the horrors of World War I, and it is sometimes described as a pacifist or anti-war film. Two romantic rivals put their... |