A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
September 21, 2015
September 20, 2015
Manhattan Trade School for Girls (1911)
Manhattan Trade School for Girls
A documentary film was made about the school in 1911.
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Documentary on The Manhattan Trade School for Girls, which was a NYC public high school founded in 1902. At the time, it was the only vocational school in the city for female students. It was originally established by philanthropic reformers whose intent was to find a means of providing training for young women to work in trades such as garment factory work.
September 19, 2015
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy is a 1912 Biograph Company short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, and was the first film to be made starring the actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish.
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A physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. It is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to help crack the safe. They lock the daughters in an adjacent room, and the drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall. The resourceful girls use the telephone to call their brother who has returned to town. He gets the message and organizes a rescue party.*Wikipedia*
Home Sweet Hell (2015) Trailer
Home Sweet Hell
Psycho Wife Unhappy Life
Home Sweet Hell, previously known as North of Hell, is a 2015 American dark comedy film directed by Anthony Burns and written by Carlo Allen, Ted Elrick, and Tom Lavagnino.
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A seductive and scheming new hire causes dangerous problems for a businessman who is married to a bi-polar, obsessive-compulsive woman.
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Traffic in Souls (1913)
Traffic in Souls
A Powerful Photo-Drama of Today
Traffic in Souls (also released as While New York Sleeps) is a 1913 American silent crime drama film focusing on forced prostitution (white slavery) in the United States.
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A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Neptune's Daughter (1914)
Neptune's Daughter
Neptune's Daughter is a 1914 American silent fantasy film featuring the first collaboration between actress Annette Kellerman and director Herbert Brenon.
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The daughter of King Neptune determines to avenge the death of her sister, who was caught in a fishing net laid by the king of a country above the waves. However, she soon falls in love with the king upon whom she planned to take her revenge. Neptune's Daughter was based on Annette Kellerman's idea of "a water fantasy movie with beautiful mermaids in King Neptune's garden together with a good love story."
Candiland (2015) Trailer
Recently divorced and heartbroken, Tess finds herself abandoned at a bar on a night out. There she encounters the eccentric and rich Peter - a man cursed with the condition of heightened sensory perception and desperately searching for a moment's peace. The two instantly fall in love and withdraw to Peter's apartment for a lengthy and addicting love affair. Days of bliss pass by but when Tess realizes she should leave and resume her life, Peter proposes a dangerous idea - isolate each other in his apartment to create their own pure reality; one free of pain and the dictates of society. Now, cut off from the world and locked inside what Peter calls Candiland, the lovers embark on a dogmatic quest for a higher existence. But slowly, they begin to descend into madness - turning the once lovers into mortal enemies.
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