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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. Intentionally written as a treatment, it stars Gustav Fröh...

This is a two part series. The first being "The Burning Times" and the second is "Witches in Literature and Art".

Why you should watch the 1987 horror classic Dolls.

In this 2009 remastered edition of the classic read-along record narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft, Mike and Karen dare to venture inside a deserted, spooky old mansion. What will they find? Probably not what you expect!

In this documentary, we explore the roots of Halloween. The legends, myths, culture behind it, and more.

Here are 10 commercials from the 1940's.

[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Incredible music: Gaveaux - Polacca (from Le Trompeur Trompe) by Alavedra, McColl, Levine.

Lotte Reiniger's silent film Cinderella (1922) with new music by Karim Al-Zand

The Haunted House, silent film from 1908. Directed by Segundo de Chomón. Impressive use of stop motion tricks for era.

Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901. In the video various films have taken in 1900-1901 displaying some of the grittier nature of work in those days. As you can see, source qualit...

Le Cochon Danseur is a silent, 4 minute long, black-and-white burlesque film released in 1907 by French company Pathé, apparently based on a Vaudeville act. Here we have the original black and white as well as a colorized version.

Alasdair Beckett-King's Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Michaelmas, a video about a horrible little man (ABK) meeting the Spirit of Michaelmas. If you've never heard anyone say "Michaelmas" before, you're about to hear it a lot of times.

This is a video filmed in 1930 of a man who was in Ford's Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was sitting in what was known as the orchestra section, which was the ground floor seating section. He was also standing on the porch t...

In Plymouth, Massachusetts- site of the colony built by the Mayflower passengers - Matteo Brault spends his days living a 17th-century life, along with dozens of other re-enactors on the modern-day Plimoth Plantation.

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was born in Trellech, Wales. His parents died when he was three years old. He is best known for being a British philosopher, logician, and social critic.

Virgil Edwin Earp (April 19, 1879 - November 20 1959) was the son of Newton Jasper Earp, Wyatt Earp's half-brother.