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Häxan Benjamin Christensen, 1922 Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the middle ages >>> 104 minutes   Color (restored tinting)   1.33:1   Sweden

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Nanook of the North Robert Flaherty, 1922 Robert Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region. Enormously popular when >>> 79 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   UK

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Body and Soul Borderline Oscar Micheaux / Kenneth Macpherson, 1925 Although the 1920s brought him acclaim as a stage actor and singer, Paul Robeson still had to prove himself as a viable screen performer. Mainstream avenues were limited, however, and his >>> 142 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

Single Disc Available only in the BOX SET: Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

The King of Kings Cecil B. DeMille, 1927 The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille >>> 155 minutes   Black and White/Color   1.33:1   USA

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The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest >>> 82 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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The Love Parade Ernst Lubitsch, 1929 Ernst Lubitsch’s first "talking picture" was also Hollywood's first movie musical to integrate songs with narrative. Additionally, The Love Parade made stars out of toast-of-Paris Maurice Chevalier and girl-from-Philly Jeanette MacDonald, >>> 109 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #8: Lubitsch Musicals

Pandora's Box Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929 One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than >>> 133 minutes   Black & White   1.33:1   Germany

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Blood of a Poet Jean Cocteau, 1930 “Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the >>> 50 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

Single Disc Available only in the BOX SET: Orphic Trilogy

Monte Carlo Ernst Lubitsch, 1930 Jeanette MacDonald's independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudolph (theater veteran >>> 90 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #8: Lubitsch Musicals

Under the Roofs of Paris René Clair, 1930 In René Clair's irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration of >>> 92 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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À nous la liberté René Clair, 1931 One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair's À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the >>> 83 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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M Fritz Lang, 1931 A simple, haunting phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who is the murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes >>> 110 minutes   Black and White   1.19:1   Germany

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Le million René Clair, 1931 An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of >>> 81 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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The Smiling Lieutenant Ernst Lubitsch, 1931 Maurice Chevalier's randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert's freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of the fictional kingdom of Flausenthurm, played by newcomer Miriam >>> 89 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

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The Threepenny Opera Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1931 The sly melodies of composer Kurt Weill and the daring of dramatist Bertolt Brecht come together on-screen under the direction of German auteur G. W. Pabst (Pandora's Box) in this classic >>> 105 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Germany

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Tokyo Chorus Yasujiro Ozu, 1931 Combining three prevalent genres of the day—the student comedy, the salaryman film, and the domestic drama—Ozu created this warmhearted family comedy, and demonstrated that he was truly coming into his own >>> 90 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Japan

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #10: Silent Ozu—Three Family Comedies

Boudu Saved from Drowning Jean Renoir, 1932 Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do >>> 84 minutes   Black and white   1.33:1   France

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I Was Born, But... Yasujiro Ozu, 1932 One of Ozu's most popular films, I Was Born But . . . is a blithe portrait of the financial and psychological toils of one family, as told from the rascally >>> 90 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Japan

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #10: Silent Ozu—Three Family Comedies

The Most Dangerous Game Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel, 1932 “One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror,” The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big game hunter with a taste for the >>> 63 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

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One Hour With You Ernst Lubitsch, 1932 Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit >>> 80 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #8: Lubitsch Musicals

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