David Butler

Amerikan İç Savaşı tüm şiddetiyle ülkeyi kasıp kavurur. İnsanlar yakınlarını kaybeder. Aileler dağılır. Savaş biter. Birlikten ayrılmak isteyen Güney eyaletlerinin kurduğu Konfederasyon yenilmiştir. Yeniden Yapılanma Dönemi başlar. Kölelik yasaklanır. Başkan Lincoln'ün suikastiyle, yeni oluşan güven ortamı yerini kaos ve anarşiye bırakır. Özellikle güney eyaletlerinde çeteciler beyaz çiftlik sahiplerine saldırır ve ailelerine göz açtırmazlar. Polis gücüne katılan siyahlar ve melezler beyazları taciz eder. Bunun üzerine asayişi sağlamak üzere "Klan" kurulur. Haçlı şövalyelerini andıran giysileriyle Ku-Klux-Klan üyeleri gecelerin hakimidir artık. Devletin sağlayamadığı adaleti onlar getirir. D.W. Griffith’in sessiz filmi Bir Ulusun Doğuşu, gerçekten de bizlere anlatılan tarih tezinin aksi bir görüşü, üstelik şimdi izlendiğinde epey rahatsız edici bir tonda sunuyor.

1914 yılının Amerika'sında yasadışı işler yapan bir küçük serserinin öyküsü.Sevdiği kızla evlenerek tövbekar olan ve bir zamanlar kullandığı tabancayı çete reisine veren adam, bu gangsterin, terk ettiği bir kadın tarafından aynı silahla vurulması üzerine suçlanarak hapse düşer, idam kararı alınır....16 hafta süren çekimleri ile zamanının rekor ücreti 40 bin dolara mal olan filmin babil bölümü en gösterişli ve nefes kesici bölümü olarak sinema tarihine geçmiş, bu sahnenin çekimi sinema tarihine geçen buluşlar sayesinde mümkün olmuştur.

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Society children Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins separate the day they are to be married. Madalyn marries her chauffeur, Jerry, while Bob falls in love with unsophisticated Ruth Cassell and, after careful consideration, marries her. Madalyn's marriage is unhappy, ending in a double suicide after Madalyn's parents disown her and Jerry's family proves to be lower class.

Film yapımcısı Arthur Trent'in başı dertte. Başrollerini Dennis Morgan ve Jack Carson'ın paylaştığı "Mademoiselle Fifi" filminin çekimlerine cuma günü başlanması planlanıyor. Ama Hollywood yönetmenlerinin hiçbiri Carson'la çalışmak istemiyor. Trent'in, Carson'ın filmi kendisi yönetmesini önermekten başka seçeneği yoktur. Ama hepsi bu kadar değil. Carson'la, özellikle de onun yönetmenliğinde, hiçbir kendine saygısı olan oyuncunun oynamayacağı bir rolde başrol oyuncusuna ihtiyaç var. Morgan daha sonra Carson'a başrolü oynaması için genç garson Judy Adams'ı davet etmesini önerir.

Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash house in the mining country, but although she has romantic feelings, they are not aroused by Jim. Nell agrees to an old miner friend's request to care for his "child," Nell is shocked to meet the six-foot girl, but she cares for her just the same. Nell falls in love with the City Chap, out West to look after his mining property, but he barely notices her, having become intrigued by the Ingenue, whom he met on the stagecoach. The jealous Nell steals stylish clothes to allure him, but she has trouble walking in French high-heels.

Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old maid, avoids her when he finds that she is a pretty young woman who flirts with the cowboys. He finally uses rough methods to win her love and, after through flames in a forest fire, succeeds in winning her. A lost film.

Oswald Lane is welcomed by his hometown as a war hero and enjoys recounting his adventures to anyone who will listen. He accepts an invitation to stay in the home of his rather colorless brother, Andrew, and is soon not only making love to Martha, the Belgian maid, but is also finding Andrew's wife, Hester, receptive to his flirting. After stealing money entrusted to Andrew by his church, Oswald is on his way out of town when he passes a school fire, rescues several children, and is himself seriously burned. Andrew offers his own skin for grafting, and Oswald directs Hester to return the money.

Seventh Heaven (1927) sessiz bir filmdir ve En İyi Film Akademi Ödülü'ne aday gösterilen ilk filmlerden biridir (daha sonra "En İyi Film, Yapım" olarak adlandırılır). Film H.H. Caldwell (başlıklar), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker (başlıklar) ve Austin Strong (oyun) tarafından yazıldı ve Frank Borzage tarafından yönetildi. Film, Gaynor ve Charles Farrell'ın başrollerini paylaştığı bir romantizm. Gaynor Başrolde En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Akademi Ödülü'nü kazandı, Borzage En İyi Yönetmen ödülünü kazandı ve Glazer En İyi Yazma, Uyarlama ödülünü kazandı. Seventh Heaven, 1927'de gişede 2,5 milyon dolardan fazla hasılat elde eden sinema tarihinin en yüksek 13. sessiz filmidir. 1995'te film, Kongre Kütüphanesi tarafından "kültürel, tarihsel veya estetik açıdan önemli" olarak Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Ulusal Film Arşivi'nde korunmak üzere seçildi.

John Linden, a victim of wanderlust, jumbles up his life and that of his two daughters. One is a daughter by marriage, the other an offspring of Jessie Walton, a young woman of the village. Noting the resemblance of the two, unscrupulous Mark Lezzard, the sea town's only lawyer, arouses the jealousy of the first daughter's husband Jack Yeulette, the skipper of a fishing smack, hoping to gain her for himself and thereby obtain control over the money John provides for her on a regular basis. After much havoc, happiness is the lot of everyone except Lezzard, whom the crowd "fixes" when they learn of what a wretch he is. A lost film.

Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?

Ralph Grey visits France with his shipbuilder father, and falls in love with Blossom, granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to steal military secrets, and has to find a way to stop him.

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

After her ex-convict husband Bill is killed in a bank robbery, Nancy Preston and her young son Bubsy are protected by Mike Horgan, a former friend from Sing Sing. Mike is wrongfully jailed, and Nancy—falsely accused of murdering a criminal fence who tried to abuse her—goes on the run. Mike breaks out of prison to join Nancy in a small town where he practices medicine under his real name, Stafford. When a persistent detective tracks them down, he falls ill, gets nursed back to health by the pair, has a change of heart, and proves Nancy's innocence so she and Mike can marry.

Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, occupies frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he's soon in love with the shop girl.

When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.

When eccentric Colonel Wynn threatens to kill Joe Benson if he marries his daughter Dorothy, the couple wed secretly. Their honeymoon at a resort is interrupted by Barbara Dow, a friend who threatens to expose the marriage unless Joe announces that Barbara is his wife.

His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.

A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.