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Hilde Warren and Death Movies

Posted by at Aug. 8, 2023

Hilde Warren and Death (1917)
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.

Drama Horror

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The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks Movies

Posted by at April 17, 2023

The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks (1917)
Official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme, which ran from 15th September to 18th November 1916.

Documentary War

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The Butcher Boy Movies

Posted by at March 3, 2021

The Butcher Boy (1917)
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

Comedy

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The Polish Dancer Movies

Posted by at Jan. 28, 2022

The Polish Dancer (1917)
A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.

Drama Romance

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The Poor Little Rich Girl Movies

Posted by at July 3, 2023

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.

Romance Comedy Drama Fantasy

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BBC - Four Collections: The Great War Interviews (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 22, 2014

A collection of interviews with World War One veterans and civilians filmed in the 1960s.

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History Channel - Line of Fire: Volume Two (2002) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 24, 2016

Line Of Fire is history with a difference. The great battlefields of war are presented in a unique animated environment providing new insights into military history's most compelling events. Each powerful episode combines informative graphics with atmospheric recreations and archive footage to analyse every facet of famous battles from the medieval period to modern times. Series also features authoritative comment by leading military historians from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. A Cromwell Production in association with The History Channel UK.

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His Wedding Night Movies

Posted by at May 31, 2025

His Wedding Night (1917)
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

Comedy

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The Rough House Movies

Posted by at May 31, 2025

The Rough House (1917)
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the charming delivery boy. As one thing leads to another, Mr Rough ends up preparing dinner for a pair of duplicitous guests, when, clearly, he should be staying out of the kitchen. Does Mrs Rough know the visitors' true intentions? But, above all, how will this disastrous dinner party at the Rough house end?

Comedy

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ITV - WW1 Battles (1999) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at April 28, 2022

The great set-piece battles of the World War One - Gallipoli, the Somme and Messines/Passchendaele - are explored in this series which combines unique archive footage with carefully researched location photography, transporting the viewer back to the exact spot where so many momentous events occurred.

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