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Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Wallace Worsley

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Willy Mullens

Towns on the Zuidersee in the Netherlands.

Dir: Anthony Young

Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Den doode steden aan de Zuiderzee perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William F. Adler

A travelogue/documentary including explorations of the fauna and people of Siam, New Guinea, and Java, with interpolations of an apparently fictitious encounter between the filmmakers and cannibalistic natives of Frederick Henry Island in the South Pacific.

Dir: Unknown Director

The true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's dramatic exploratory journey to Antarctica aboard the Endurance, during which the ship and all aboard became icebound.

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

Dir: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Claude Friese-Greene

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Alberto Botelho

A view of the Carnival festivities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as covered by filmmaker Alberto Botelho in 1920.

Dir: Arnold Fanck

A documentary about skiing at the beginning of the century.