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- DirectorBret SternStarsJohn O'NeilSteve ArthurJohn BrosseauElectrical overload at the Throbbing Video Company office alows an alien force into the phone lines. The force becomes a sound wave and enters the body of an electrician who then goes on a rampage. When the electrician is killed, the force transfers to another body and so on.
- DirectorMatthew CohenStarsMeredith VieiraRobin Meade
- DirectorAlan HandleyStarsAnna Maria AlberghettiJune AllysonFred AstaireThe 30th Academy Awards ceremony, held on March 26th, 1958 to honor the best films of 1957 with Bob Hope returning as host. The ceremony is accompanied by many scandals: Two violent deaths and the Hollywood blacklist during the Cold War.
- DirectorTherese DennyStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.
- StarsJames MasonColleen MooreByron HaskinThe history of the American film industry in Hollywood during the Silent era.
- DirectorShawn ThompsonStarsYannick BissonHelene JoyThomas CraigDuring a performance of "Macbeth" in a venerable Toronto theater, a desiccated body breaks through the floor and lands with a chandelier just missing Lady Macbeth.
- DirectorNicholas EliopoulosStarsCharles ChaplinWalt DisneyAmelia EarhartA chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.
- DirectorAngus McIntyreStarsDanny LeighSarah ChurchwellMartin ScorseseDanny Leigh explores the enduring popularity of the boxing film.
- DirectorGustav DeutschFragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.
- DirectorDouglas ThomsonStarsTara BeierDrummond MacdougallBrian J. CoffeySet in the 1890s North American frontier. When a young woman discovers the truth behind her brother's macabre and sinister murder, she puts her trust in her pistols to settle the score.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
- StarsLiev SchreiberMarv AlbertJohn G. AvildsenA look at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
- DirectorElijah DrennerStarsRobert ForsterEric SchaeferEddie MullerA documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsAsa ButterfieldChloë Grace MoretzChristopher LeeIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
- DirectorDewayne AustinThis video was primarily shot at the Apache prisoner of war cemetery at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Sounds of distant field artillery thundering over the graves echoed the forces that silenced these lives and voices more than one hundred years before. With themes of creation, the buffalo dance and ghost dance, this experimental video incorporates some of the earliest film records of these dances performed by Sioux members of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and produced by the Edison company in 1894. Native music and voices along with original prose and music make up the soundtrack. Lyrical excerpts of the buffalo and ghost dances of the Sioux, Kiowa, and Paiute people are augmented by an original composition by DeWayne Austin and Byron Sakamoto which was inspired by the medicine song of Geronimo.
- StarsMrs. Auguste LumiereAntoine LumièreAuguste LumièreA collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France.
- DirectorPeter Frazer-JonesStarsRichard O'SullivanPaula WilcoxSally ThomsettChrissy's film buff boyfriend Neil gives her a movie camera for her birthday and lends her a projector to screen the film she has made. Larry hopes to use the projector to show blue movies to George and Robin when the women are out. They are interrupted by the ladies but the film Larry has been given only turns out to be a Mr. Magoo cartoon.
- DirectorCraig ZiskStarsToni ColletteJohn CorbettRosemarie DeWittMax visits Dr. Hatteras - as does Alice, without Tara knowing - telling him he has an obligation to continue his work with Tara. He agrees, but Alice tells him that one of the alters has disappeared. Needing a break, Charmaine asks Tara to take care of the baby for the day. It goes well until Tara comes out of an altered state in the middle of nowhere. She not only doesn't know where she is but has no idea which of her alters had emerged and set off with the baby. Max and Marshall fly off to New York City but Max's extreme fear of flying makes it a less than pleasant experience. In St. Louis, Kate introduces them to Evan and they all get to meet his young son, who proves to be a little terror.
- DirectorFrancis DoublierA household gardener is outside watering the garden. Unknown to him, the son of another servant sneaks up behind him and steps on the hose, stopping the flow of water. The befuddled gardener doesn't know what happened to the water flow, putting the hose nozzle up to his face to investigate. The boy then steps off the hose, resulting in the gardener getting sprayed in the face with water. The boy ends up getting his comeuppance.
- DirectorBirt AcresBoy tricks gardener by stepping off the hose, then releasing water.
- DirectorJames H. WhiteA lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, resulting in the lady taking an unexpected bath. The father then appears and chastises the youthful culprit. One of the best films ever made.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithBoy treads on the gardener's hose, then releases the water.
- DirectorJames BamforthTwo men work in a large garden, one of them watering with a hose and wearing a boater. A young man in apron and cap sneaks into the scene, hides behind a bush, and kinks the hose. The man in the boater can't figure out what's going on, and before too long, he's soaked. He gives chase. Will he catch the prankster, and if he does, what punishment will he meet out?
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsJana AltmanováTereza BebarováJarmila BursováZdenek Troska's summer comedy is a humorous look at life in a contemporary village. Here we follow, with detachment and comedic hyperbole, the snowballing misunderstandings and coincidences that really get the village inhabitants in a whirl. The story is not lacking love, jealousy, envy, intrigue and, above all, humorous moments where many will recognize a bit of themselves. The story begins where the second part left off: the mayor wants to exact his revenge on the local gossipers and sends them to the seaside for a vacation.
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsAndrey MironovAlexandra YakovlevaMikhail BoyarskiyMr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
- DirectorBreid McLooneStarsMiranda HartBarry CryerChris Daniels
- DirectorJim ReardonMark KirklandStarsDan CastellanetaJulie KavnerNancy CartwrightThe Simpsons family must participate in a reality television show in which they try to live in the same way that the families did in the 1800s.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsEmil SkladanowskyMax SkladanowskyThe first cinema screening, consisting of the shorts "Italienischer Bauerntanz (1895)", "Komisches Reck (1895)", "Das boxende Känguruh (1895)", "Der Jongleur (1895)", "Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895)", "Kamarinskaja (1895)", "Die Serpentintänzerin (1895)", "Ringkämpfer (1895)" and "Apotheose (1895)".