20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1916
A film by Stuart Paton
A silent era adventure film based on the classic 1870 novel by Jules Verne. A professor and his small band of adventurers contend with the powerful and anachronistic Captain Nemo, as he wages war on the world’s shipping industry with an advanced submarine of his own design. (Browse our Movie Archive)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1919
A film by Robert Wiene
Considered the first modern horror movie, this silent film is a German Expressionist classic, featuring a sinister hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, who commands Cesare, an unwitting accomplice, to commit horrendous crimes. The film is viewed as a metaphor for the horrors of World War I, with Caligari representing the German war machine, and Cesare, the common German citizen, brainwashed by authority to kill. (Browse our Movie Archive)
