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Dir: J. Gordon Edwards

Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Luther Green goes to war in France in 1917. When he comes back to his family home in New Jersey, he has a surprise following him: a beautiful French girl named Nina.

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

Dir: Arthur Günsburg

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: James A. FitzPatrick

Documentary short subject depicting the life of the American writer and poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The film is the first in the "Great American Authors" series from Kineto.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Tragödie eines Großen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Charles Bryant

Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.

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

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Richard Boleslawski

Quiet and monotonous life in the countryside is abruptly interrupted by the moving front of the Polish-Russian war.

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

Dir: Charles Calvert

Lord Byron's wife leaves him after a jealous lady plots his ruin.

Dir: H. Bruce Woolfe

A reconstruction of how Admiral Beatty lured the German fleet into a trap.