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After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

A middle-aged magnate makes a fool of himself when he strays from his loving wife and children into the cynical arms of a gold digger and her dishonest lover.

Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.

A bridegroom is riding to his marriage when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a branch while its owner, a married lady, enjoys a tryst behind the bush with her lover, a fierce hussar. She cannot go home without her hat, so the groom interlaces his wedding with an attempt to find madam a twin chapeau, launching a series of misunderstandings and embarrassments.

A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.

A story showing a time when friendship means more to a man than love. Beleaguered by women in his native land, Rodrigo Torriani, an Italian count, travels to New York to work in the antique business. He is soon embroiled in a whole new series of romantic entanglements.

• True heart Susie / written, produced and directed by D.W. Griffith (as Marian Fremont) for Paramount-Artcraft ; Cinematography, G.W. Bitzer. (1919, 87 min.)
• Hoodoo Ann / Fine Arts Film Company ; produced and written by D.W. Griffith (as Granville Warwick) for Triangle ; directed by Lloyd Ingraham (1916, 64 min).

True heart Susie (87 min.): Lillian Gish portrays a pure, prim girl who so loves her childhood sweetheart (played by Griffith's most charming hero, Robert Harron) that she sells the family cow to anonymously finance his higher education, only to lose him to a more "modern" woman when he comes home. Griffith is in top form and Gish's performance is one of her best.
Hoodoo Ann (64 min.): An orphan girl (Mae Marsh) yearns for acceptance and love. Although the plot is a tangle of coincidences, there are many fine touches, including a spectacular orphanage fire, two bedtime kiss sequences, an off-screen first kiss, an extended movie-within-a-movie, and the final wedding scene.

• Disc
• 1: The 2011 restoration (Blu-ray)
• Disc
• 2: The 1993 restoration and The making of 'The birth of a nation'
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• 3: Bonus films and documents.

Nearly 100 years after its initial release, remains one of the most controversial films ever made and a landmark achievement in film history that continues to fascinate and enrage audiences. It is the epic story of two families, one northern and one southern, during and after the Civil War. D.W. Griffith's masterful direction combines brilliant battle scenes and tender romance with a vicious portrayal of African-Americans.

• Special features: Das Meisterstück : Faust (from the series Die Sprache der Schatten : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau und seine filme / The language of shadows : F. W. Murnau and his films) (TVE ; Filmoteca Madrid ; 2007 ; 53 min.) ; set designs by Robert Herlth ; screen tests for Ernst Lubitsch's "Marguerite and Faust" ; photo gallery ; essay by film historian Jan Christopher Horak ; Notes on the Mont Alto Score [found on the audio setup menu].

Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.

• Sherlock Jr. (45 min., 1924) / a Metro attraction ; directed by Buster Keaton ; produced by Joseph M. Schenck ; screenplay by Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, & Clyde Bruckman
• Three ages (63 min., 1923) / a Metro attraction ; directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline ; produced by Joseph M. Schenck ; screenplay by Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, & Clyde Bruckman.

Widely regarded as one of the most visually inventive silent comedies ever made, Sherlock Jr. offers fast-paced slapstick as well as a brilliant deconstruction of the filmmaking process. Keaton stars as a movie theater projectionist who dreams of becoming a super-sleuth and, in one breathtaking sequence, literally steps into the screen to bring his fantasies to life.
Another comedy for film-lovers (that plays upon the conventions of cinema), Three Ages is a clever spoof of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. In Keaton's multi-narrative epic, man's primal quest for love is played out in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and the Jazz Age.

True heart Susie (87 min.): Lillian Gish portrays a pure, prim girl who so loves her childhood sweetheart (played by Griffith's most charming hero, Robert Harron) that she sells the family cow to anonymously finance his higher education, only to lose him to a more "modern" woman when he comes home. Griffith is in top form and Gish's performance is one of her best.
Hoodoo Ann (64 min.): An orphan girl (Mae Marsh) yearns for acceptance and love. Although the plot is a tangle of coincidences, there are many fine touches, including a spectacular orphanage fire, two bedtime kiss sequences, an off-screen first kiss, an extended movie-within-a-movie, and the final wedding scene.

• Disc
• 1. Feature film (168 min.)
• Disc
• 2. Extras (183 min.).

Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

"[Silent film about] a train-hopping hobo who dresses like a boy to survive. After escaping her violent stepfather, Nancy befriends kindly drifter Jim. They ride the rails together until a fateful encounter with the blustery Oklahoma Red and his rambunctious band of hoboes, leading to daring, desperate conflict on top of a moving train. Based on the memoir of real-life hobo Jim Tully"--Container.

• Disc 1: Italian (ca. 75 min.) / (Paramount Pictures Corporation ; New York Motion Pictures Corp. ; Thomas H. Ince, producer ; Reginald Barker, director)
• Police force of New York City (ca. 9 min.)
• McQuade of the traffic squad (ca. 16 min.) / (Eugene Nowland, scenario and direction). Disc 2: Traffic in souls, or, while New York sleeps (ca. 90 min.) / (Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; George Loane Tucker, producer ; Walter McNamara, George Loane Tucker, story)
• The call of the city (ca. 12 min.) / (Harry Beaumont, director).

Four films that address the immigrant experience in the United States in the early twentieth century.

"The film begins in an American 'divorce colony' in Paris after the First World War, where parents would leave their children for months at a time. Jean, Kitty, and Ted meet there as children and become fast friends. Years later, in America, when wealthy Ted (Gary Cooper) reconnects with Jean (Esther Ralston), the two fall deeply in love, vowing to fulfill a childhood promise to one day marry each other. But true love and the most innocent of plans are no match for the scheming Kitty - played by the original Hollywood 'It' girl, Clara Bow - who targets Ted for his fortune. After a night of drunken revelry, Ted wakes up to find he has unwittingly married Kitty. This unfortunate turn of events, however, carries with it the traumatized pasts of the three players, whose views of marriage have been shaped as children of divorce."--Container.

• Disc
• 1. Making a living / director, Henry Lehrman ; music, Frederick Hodges (13 min., 1914)
• Kid auto races at Venice, Cal. / director, Henry Lehrman ; music, Eric Beheim (7 min., 1914)
• Mabel's strange predicament / director, Mabel Normand ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (12 min., 1914)
• Between showers / director, Henry Lehrman ; music, Frederick Hodges (14 min., 1914)
• A film Johnnie / director, George Nichols ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (12 min., 1914)
• Tango tangles / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Stephen Horne (10 min., 1914)
• His favorite pastime / director, George Nichols ; music, Antonio Coppola (13 min., 1914)
• Cruel, cruel love / director, George Nichols ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (10 min., 1914)
• The star boarder / director, George Nichols ; music, Frederick Hodges (12 min., 1914)
• Mabel at the wheel / director, Mabel Normand, M. Sennett ; music, Eric Beheim (24 min., 1914)
• Twenty minutes of love / director, Joseph Maddern, C. Chaplin ; music, Robert Israel (11 min., 1914)
• Caught in a cabaret / director, Mabel Normand, C. Chaplin ; music, Antonio Coppola (23 min., 1914).

• Disc
• 2. Caught in the rain / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (12 min., 1914)
• A busy day / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Frederick Hodges (6 min., 1914)
• The fatal mallet / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Ethan Uslan (14 min., 1914)
• The knockout / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Neil Brand (31 min., 1914)
• Mabel's busy day / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Ethan Uslan (13 min., 1914)
• Mabel's married life / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Antonio Coppola (15 min., 1914)
• Laughing gas / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Robert Israel (13 min., 1914)
• The property man / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Neil Brand (24 min., 1914)
• The face on the barroom floor / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim (12 min., 1914)
• Recreation / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Antonio Coppola (7 min., 1914).

• Disc
• 3. The masquerader / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (13 min., 1914)
• His new profession / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Antonio Coppola (12 min., 1914)
• The rounders / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Robert Israel (14 min., 1914)
• The new janitor / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Robert Israel (13 min., 1914)
• Those love pangs / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Antonio Coppola (12 min., 1914)
• Dough and dynamite / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim (29 min., 1914)
• Gentlemen of nerve / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Neil Brand (15 min., 1914)
• His musical career / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Stephen Horne (14 min, 1914)
• His trysting places / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Stephen Horne (21 min., 1914).

• Disc
• 4. Getting acquainted / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (14 min., 1914)
• His prehistoric past / director, Charles Chaplin ; music, Ethan Uslan (22 min., 1914)
• Tillie's punctured romance / director, Mack Sennett ; music, Ken Winokur and "Tillie's Nightmare" (86 min., 1914)
• His regular job (former title The thief catcher) (excerpt) / director, Henry Lehrman (6 min.)
• Charlie et sa Belle = Charlie's white elephant / director, John Colman Terry, H.M. Shieds ; music, Eric Le Guen (6 min., 1916)
• Inside the Keystone project / production, Lobster Films (11 min., 2010)
• Silent traces :discovering early Hollywood through the films of Charlie Chaplin / written and narrated by John Bengston ; produced by Serge Bromberg ; Lobster Films (13 min., 2010).

Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. The Chaplin at Keystone collection contains over thirty of Charlie Chaplin's greatest works.