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Robert Wiene's Genuine the Vampire (1920) was  eclipsed by The Cabinet of Dr Caligari , completed a few months earlier. But Genuine ...

Feodor Chaliapin, the great Russian bass, starring in a comedy made by G W Pabst ? Yes! In 1933, even the biggest names in opera had no h...

Carl Th. Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) is a masterpiece every serious film buff studies frame by frame. But Dreyer's Vamp...

This song makes me weep. It's so specific that it seems like it's about a real woman. She's half African, half Norwegian, went...

That Within Our Gates should exist at all is pretty remarkable. How did a film like this come to be made at the time it did (1920)? And s...

It's the 13th century and the Mongols are invading Europe from the east, and Teutonic Knights are invading Slav lands from the west. No...

Full download of the 1923 movie Salomé, notorious because the cast and crew were all supposed to be gay. What do you expect, from a film th...

Arbeiter, Bauern, nehmt die Gewehre nehmt die Gewehre zur Hand! Zerschlagt die faschistischen Räuberheere, setzt alle Herzen in Brand. La...

This is what will happen if you eat too many chocolate bunnies. Not Alice in Wonderland the ballet at ROH but Alice in Wonderland the 1915...

Full download of The Red Detachment of Women the ballet Nixon and Pat are watching in John Adams Nixon in China. Although in the opera,...

"In the basement beneath the rolling Quad of Trinity College, a scholar is preparing to offer the devil his soul in exchange for absolu...

Berlin : Symphony of a Great City (1927) is showing again in London this weekend, but here is the FULL DOWNLOAD. It's also available o...

Yellowface movies aren't easy for "real" orientals to watch because too often they show stereotypes that range from ludicrous ...

Complete download f rom Opera Today of  Der Vampyr the short(ish) opera  by H A Marschner (1795-1861) which has been enjoying quite a reviv...

G W Pabst's Die freudlos Gasse or Joyless Street (1925). This full download is the original US release so it plays up the Great Garb...

A  different movie for Halloween! All black production, scripted and conceived by songwriter Spencer Williams (1889-1965). Hence the snap...

Before Fritz Lang made Metropolis , he made Die Nibelungen, the blockbuster of its time, on a scale so elaborate that the film took two ...

Not Gounod's Faust at ENO, but  F W Murnau's Faust from 1926. This is based on the Goethe version of the story, with Gretchen b...

Another version of Carmen, this time the 1921 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch which became a huge hit in the US and paved the way for his Ho...

So yoiu can appreciate Bizet'sr Carmen at the Royal Opera House, here's Charlie Chaplin's 1915 take, Burlesque on Carmen .  B...