Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with various social theories about their significance.
Genre: TV Movie, Documentary
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford
Crew: Noël Burch (Director), Noël Burch (Writer), Hubert Niogret (Producer), Annick Nozati (Music), Jorge Dana (Researcher), Bernard Eisenschitz (Script Consultant)
Country: France, United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: Channel 4 Television, Ministère de la culture
Runtime: 156 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 16, 1985
IMDb: 5
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