Helen Lewis

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.

A young man, discharged from the army, returns to his coal town.

A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.

Walls plays an Englishman who's assigned the task of transporting a Queen(Yvonne Arnaud) of a revolution-torn country to England incognito. Hiding her in his London apartment, then his country house gives rise to many misunderstandings among his employees, friends and his Fianceé.

A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.

거구의 기선 화부 빌(조지 밴크로프트)은 자살하려는 거리의 여자 메이(베티 콤프슨)를 구해준다. 두 사람은 소란한 살롱에서 이야기를 나누다 순간적인 충동에 따라 결혼해 버린다. 그것이 진지한 결정이었는지 하룻밤 정사를 위한 핑계였는지는 알 수 없다. 차갑고 명징한 아침의 빛은 환멸과 변심을 가져온다. 그러나 나중에 빌은 충동적으로 배에서 내려, 자신이 메이에게 훔쳐다 주었던 드레스 때문에 메이가 받게 된 벌을 대신 받으러 가는데...

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.