Doris Lloyd

In a bid to extend the empire, the British prime minister races spies and rivals to secure the Suez Canal—and India—with help from a Jewish banker.

Running away to join the circus was a popular romantic sentiment in the 1920s for those wishing to escape life's drudgery. For wannabe actress Violet (Beatrice Lillie), it was joining a third-rate traveling actors troupe specializing in over-the-top melodramas of love and loss. Too plain to play the vampy vixen, she was relegated to the menial but necessary tasks to keep the show afloat. Known for her rubbery features and comic timing, Lillie taps her higher Chaplinesque qualities and deep humanist emotions in beguiling balance to the laughter. Violet's real-life drama rises far above the on-stage fiction, as with her tutoring and support of a handsome young recruit (Jack Pickford) who becomes the male lead, a man whom she falls in love with but withholds her heart. This silent classic is a riveting time capsule into a pre-Depression world that will fascinate, draw tears and ultimately...cheers.

There's no honor among thieves in director Tod Browning's delirious tale of love and betrayal starring Lon Chaney, Owen Moore and Renée Adorée. A notorious Limehouse criminal, Dan Tate (Chaney) lives a double life. As feared underworld figure The Blackbird, he hides in plain sight posing as his imaginary brother, the Bishop, a kind-but-crippled preacher who runs the local mission. Infatuated with charming French music hall performer Fifi Lorraine (Adorée), Tate's affections turn to envy when she falls for West End Bertie (Moore), a handsome gentleman thief. With jealousy clouding his reason, Tate employs both his identities in a sinister scheme to destroy his rival and keep Fifi for himself.

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from a cruel apprenticeship to a den of thieves searching for a proper home.

Caught between two worlds, a man who was orphaned in the African jungle as a baby and raised by apes has grown to rule and to protect the wild beasts, a hero known only as Tarzan.

This Emmy-nominated anthology consists of a series of delightful mini features, including originals and beloved 20th Century Fox movies.

Madge’s charmed life is thrown into chaos when she learns her Park Avenue parents adopted her and unthinkable tragedy surrounds her birth parents.

A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.

In Victorian England, an impassioned scientist creates an invention that can shoot him back and forth in time, all the way to the year 800,000 where he finds humanity divided into two different tribes.