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The birth of a nation
by D. W Griffith
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97 editions published between 1915 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 2,931 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history
The night of the hunter
by Charles Laughton
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52 editions published between 1955 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment
Way down East
by D. W Griffith
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53 editions published between 1920 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past
Intolerance
by D. W Griffith
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74 editions published between 1916 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Comprised of four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story features 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. This version produced in Italy has optional Italian subtitles and a synopsis and notes about the film in Italian, but lacks the biographies and filmographies noted on the container
Broken blossoms
by D. W Griffith
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35 editions published between 1919 and 2002 in English and held by 614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living under the violent, abusive hand of her resentful prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them until that time. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man avenges Lucy's death and then takes his own life
Broken blossoms, or, The yellow man and the girl
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26 editions published between 1919 and 2002 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them
Orphans of the storm
by D. W Griffith
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20 editions published between 1921 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 586 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two girls, raised as sisters, arrive in Paris on the eve of the French revolution only to be cruelly and tragically separated
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3 editions published between 1984 and 2007 in English and held by 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Eager to flee from his drunken father and the confining life with Widow Douglass and Miss Watson, Huck sets off on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave, in tow
Follow me, boys!
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5 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in English and held by 435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Lem Siddons decides to put down roots after one too many years on the road with a ramshackle jazz band. He marries his sweetheart Vida Downey, and becomes a scoutmaster
Intolerance a drama of comparisons
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2 editions published between 1916 and 2002 in English and held by 432 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. 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
The unforgiven
by John Huston
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6 editions published between 1960 and 2004 in English and Multiple languages and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Un cavalier excentrique révèle que la benjamine d'une famille de colons est une Indienne
The Whales of August
by Lindsay Anderson
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5 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two elderly sisters--one contrary and cantankerous, the other patient and kind--must decide whether to give up their family home, independence, and life together
The Wind
by Victor Sjöström
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18 editions published between 1928 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Letty, a girl from Virginia, is forced to make her home with her cousin Beverly on a desert farm where the wind blows constantly. On her arrival she meets Roddy, an attractive stranger and two cowboys, Lige and Sourdough. Letty later marries Lige. While Lige is away on a roundup, Roddy arrives and takes advantage of Letty's helplessness and she shoots him. She buries his body in the sand, but the strong wind tugs at the grave and uncovers it, driving her mad. Lige returns and Letty tells him what has happened. They look for the body, but the strong wind has covered it once again. They decide to face the wind together
Portrait of Jennie
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3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An artist meets a schoolgirl in Central Park who has a mysterious air about her. What follows is an unforgettable love story
The whales of August
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 279 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two elderly sisters who have spent sixty summers on a Maine island together must finally decide whether to give up their family home, independence and life together
The great train robbery
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3 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This special edition contains two versions of this historically significant western the original silent archival version and a digitally enhanced version with new music, effects track and color sequences
Intolerance love's struggle throughout the ages
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6 editions published between 1916 and 2002 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Comprised of four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story features 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
Intolerance A sun-play of the ages : A drama of comparisons
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2 editions published in 2002 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale
The comedians
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 221 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer
A wedding
by Robert Altman
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3 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A satire on the great American institution of marriage as two families overflowing with lunatics and lechers try to get along for the wedding day but succeed only in exposing each other's secrets and sins more
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Carter, Dorothy Elizabeth 1893-1993 Pseudonym
De Guiche, Lillian.
De Guiche, Lillian, 1893-1993
De Guiche, Lillian 1893-1993 Wirklicher Name
Giš, Lilian 1893-1993
Gish, Lilian.
Gish, Lilian, 1893-1993
Gish Lilian 1896-1993
Gish, Lillian Diana.
Gish, Lillian Diana, 1893-1993
Guiche Lilian de 1896-1993
Guiche, Lillian de.
Guiche, Lillian de, 1893-1993
جيش، ليليان، 1893-1993
ليليان غيش، 1893-1993
ギッシュ, リリアン
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