Emil Jannings

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category w...

The Last Laugh

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn...

The Blue Angel

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and v...

Faust

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple a...

The Way of All Flesh

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy...

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a gl...

Variety

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

The Last Command

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed b...

Waxworks

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrib...

Hitler's Hollywood

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power,...

The Film in the Film

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different perso...

The Patriot

In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen w...

Anna Boleyn

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momen...

Tartuffe

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the...

100 Years of the UFA

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic,...

The Broken Jug

Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nig...

Sins of the Fathers

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no...

Uncle Krüger

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul K...

Madame DuBarry

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolu...

Danton

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his...

The Eyes of the Mummy

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu...

The Old and The Young King

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King...

Betrayal

André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to t...

Othello

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealous...

Peter the Great

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country t...

The Dismissal

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the...

Frau Eva

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

The Movie City of Hollywood

German documentary about Hollywood

Fuhrmann Henschel

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing...

Darling of the Gods

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed op...

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

Algol: Tragedy of Power

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Husbands or Lovers

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen