Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of Alice in Wonderland: ...

Dir: Charles Swickard

A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.

Dir: George D. Baker

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Buried Treasure perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.

Dir: Gustav Adolf Olsen

In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.

Dir: George Fitzmaurice

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Kaksen på Øverland perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.

Dir: Fritz Lang

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Dir: Paul Terry

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Forever perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Farmer Al Falfa is a patrolman rollerskating through the park. A day of misadventures climaxes with a monkey stealing his clothes.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Destiny perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Dir: Winsor McCay

Fragment from an unreleased film that was presumably produced between 1918 and 1921. In it, Gertie the dinosaur encounters the modern era. She has an encounter with a cable car and tells her dinosaur friends about it.