Leatrice Joy Gilbert

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Mark Hunt, Scott Eyman

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.

Rediscovering John Gilbert

Jeffrey Vance

Leatrice Joy Gilbert, John Gilbert

This documentary features an on-camera interview with John Gilbert's daughter and biographer, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain.

A Guy Named Joe

Victor Fleming

Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne

A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.

Of Human Hearts

Clarence Brown

Walter Huston, James Stewart

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.

Hitler's Madman

Douglas Sirk

Patricia Morison, John Carradine

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

Reunion in France

Jules Dassin

Joan Crawford, John Wayne

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Elaina Archer

Diane Lane, Maria Riva

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.