Abel Gance

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon s...

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965...

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965...

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded ...

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Ganc...

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are in...

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the Lea...

A color test film of the Proterama process created by Abel Gance.

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: tha...

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the ...

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for des...

What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in L...

The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin t...

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in sc...

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one o...

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Aust...

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under...

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. T...

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, a...

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully hi...

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss,...

A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his f...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his f...

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he encou...

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becom...

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becom...

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale become...

Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce mee...

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your aver...

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in Amer...

Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War br...

Le périscope is a 1928 film

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

Guards are posted to protect various important figures who are threatened with a phone call, that by 10 p.m. the following night they will be dead.Som...

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on hi...

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself w...

La digue is a 1911 silent film

A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian woman with whom he falls in love. The young girl i...

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

Directed by Albert Capellani.

Abel Gance's Magnum Opus was a documentary project put together by jdtspring. This project started at the beginning of 2024 and is a multiple volume s...