
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
1924 - 2015The 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.
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
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.
Of Human Hearts
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.
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema