A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the political changes of his country and his life after the war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.

Actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris, and editor Stan Warnow, discuss the 1970 film THE HONEYMOON KILLERS.

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III wrote his first letter to Melissa Gardner to tell her she looked like a lost princess. They were both seven years old. For the next fifty years, through personal triumphs and despair, through wars and marriages and children and careers, they poured out the secrets of their hearts to each other. They defied a fate that schemed to keep them apart and lived—through letters—or the one most meaningful thing, their undying love for each other.

'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)

After historic love letters start anonymously appearing in Kallie Sharp's mailbox, the hobby farmer searches for her secret admirer and opens herself up to love.

Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…

Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.

Restoration of a home built in 1890

In this extraordinary six-part series, film historian and critic Noel Burch uses clips of rare archival silent film treasures to take us on a riveting journey of discovery. How did silent film reach such incredible heights in a mere 30 years? Why did film in the United States so quickly become such a popular art form? In the first program, Along the Great Divide: Great Britain 1900-1912, Burch examines early British classics like Rescued by Rover and other, rare films by Cecil Hepworth, Stuart Kinder, James Williamson, R.W. Paul and others to look at how the British "gentlemen inventors of the cinema" created entertainment for the poor. The second part, Tomorrow the World: USA 1902-1914, looks at early film in America against the background of the immigrant masses streaming into the factories, slums and sweat-ships of early 20th century America. Films by Porter, Griffith, Reginald Baker, George Dobson, Stuart Blackton and others show how early American film invented social content and then dropped it for the development of narrative. In the third program, She! Denmark 1902-1914, Burch looks at the incredible explosion of filmmaking in Denmark where mature cinema was born at a time when French and American films were simple melodramas. The earliest Danish film stars - Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad - played in remarkable films which were innovative in the technical aspects of lighting, camera angles and editing. The fourth program, The Enemy Below: France 1904-1912 covers the early love affair between the cinema and the French working class through early Pathe and Gaumont productions, and rare films of Leonce Petter, Louis Feuilliade, (including his celebrated serials Les Vampires, Judex and Vendemaire) and Jacques Feyder's Crainquebille. Post-Revolutionary Russia was a period of extraordinary social and cultural experiment, and in the fifth program of this landmark series about the early years of the cinema, Noel Burch focuses on the sexual politics of the Soviet cinema. The program, Born Yesterday: USSR 1926-1930 includes obscure films like The House on Trubnaya Square by Boris Barnet, Ermler's Katka's Apples and Remnants of an Empire, Vertov's Kino-Eye and Kozintsev and Trauberg's The Devil Wheel in a unique look at a great era of cinema in a climate of virulent change. In Under Two Flags: Germany 1926-1932, Burch discusses the German silent cinema, including landmark German films like Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer's People on Sunday, Brecht and Dudow's Kuhle Wampe and Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz. These films were part of the "populist" cinema of the Weimer Republic, the German Worker's Film. Ironically, these films were ultimately replaced by the more palatable and cheerful films of Siodmak and Wilder, and the victory of Nazism.

Casanova, history's most famous erotic hero, lived the life of an international playboy and adventurer, undertaking secret missions, swindling aristocrats and infuriating authorities wherever he went. Through historical accounts and Casanova's own memoirs and love letters, this fascinating docudrama recreates the exploits of "the World's Greatest Lover," providing new insight into the legacy of a man who was so much more than his reputation would suggest.