"Renowned silent film accompanist and historian Ben Model has taken nine of the rare and lost silent films in his 16mm collection and produced this ... DVD, bringing these rarities to a new audience in new HD digital transfers. Each film on this DVD has a new musical score by Ben Model performed on piano or theatre organ"--Container.

"Renowned silent film accompanist/historian Ben Model has taken eight of the rare and lost silent films in his 16mm collection (plus one from film archivist Dino Everett) and produced this 2nd ... DVD. Each film on this DVD is presented in a new HD digital transfer and has a new musical score by Ben Model performed on piano or theatre organ"--Container.

New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies are here, restored in the best quality since their first release! Includes two features and 19 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film "The Battle of the Century," making its video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years.

Hollywood Chinese: A look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. Forbidden city, USA: Profiles the groundbreaking entertainers from the renowned all-Chinese Forbidden City Nightclub in 1940s San Francisco. The killing fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor: Chronicles the journey of a Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian doctor, from his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge to a harrowing escape to America,...

Le cavalier bleu: The blue horseman, born in the kitchens of hell, escapes and sets off to discover, a strange, dreamlike world. Caught up in all kinds of manipulations, he ends up becoming a legend himself. Il dit qu'il est mort: Hoisted by his rope, a hanged man is lifted up through the branches of a tree. While he is in the middle of his ascent toward the heavens and death, the woman who'd accused him of a crime clears him of it. He gently comes...

"Here is Great Smoky Mountains National Park in all its seasons and in all its splendor. An incredible yet fragile biodiversity of life abounds in this half-million acre sanctuary. From butterflies to black bears, from mosses and lichens to old-growth forests, from salamanders to turkeys and white-tailed deer -- all are spectacularly shown in this film."--Container

Lorraine of the lions: A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civilization" in San Francisco, but things don't work out...