Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the mob.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.

A poor Midwest family, forced off of their land, travels to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Cautionary tale features a fictionalized take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.

When an elderly lady disappears from a train, everyone aboard denies that she ever existed...except Iris, who must save her new friend and prove that she's the victim of conspiracy, not delusion.

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and infuriating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

Dr. Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate.

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal gorilla who takes a shine to their blonde female star.

Two men decide to cash in on the end of Prohibition by selling watered down beer.

A living mummy stalks the beautiful woman he believes is the reincarnation of his lover.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive—with his girlfriend aboard—he pursues it single-handedly straight through enemy lines.

A deep dive into the 1927 to 1934 films of the Department of Tropical Research, famous for record-breaking submersible dives of discovery thousands of feet under the sea.

An exploration of the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe.

A film projectionist who longs to be a detective puts his meagre sleuthing skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Ernst Lubitsch's second American silent film is a mélange of marital missteps and misunderstandings, a merry-go-round for grown-ups.

In this seminal masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema, a hypnotist brings a man under his control and turns him into a somnambulist, or sleepwalker, who commits murders.

The story of the 1914–1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather.

A pearl fisherman meets the Queen of the Deep at the bottom of the ocean in this silent fantasy from 1907.

A selection of late-19th and early-20th century films using cinema as a tool to explore the human body as a site of spectacle.