Library Of Congress Movies

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben...

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and...

Claire Barrington falls heir to a famous racing stable with many debts, whose payment is dependent upon the sweepstakes in which the horse Wildfire...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbour May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle;...

To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, wealthy George Hunter makes some large investments in...

Maurice Tourneur's first American made film is a silent drama about a mother's love and sacrifice starring Emma Dunn, who also starred in the 1910...

In 1941, folklorist Alan Lomax traveled from the Library of Congress to the Mississippi Delta to record an oral history of the blues. Equipped with...

In a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow. In...

When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met at a USO dance, her family objects and consequently,...

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a...

Muriel Rossi (Mary Brian), the sister of a racketeer, Al Rossi (Harry Woods), falls in love with Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot), the son of a police...

Edith Adams, burdened by her family’s financial struggles, faces pressure from her mother to marry well.

Nurse Lucy Weston, seeks revenge and marries a young millionaire she believes is responsible for her father's death.

Maud March, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, goes to New York to see her sweetheart Geoffrey who left town years ago. Her aunt Carolyn wants...

Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has...

An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his niece.

An exposé of the "fake" or "wicked" Bohemian social circles, highlighting the moral consequences of their actions. The film features a...

Addicted youth Roy Wilson steals his architect father's bid for a railway contract to pay gambling debts to Graham Madison, but the theft leads to...