Top-Tier Alternatives Exploring the Legacy of Yser: Cult Guide

Dir: Augusto Genina

Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.

Dir: Dimitris Gaziadis

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

Pictures from the Greek expedition to Asia Minor.

Dir: Muhsin Ertugrul

Ayse who lost her husband and child during the occupation of Izmir by Greek Army in 1919 goes to Istanbul to attend demonstrations which are arranged against the occupation of Anatolia. And then she passes to Anatolia to be a nurse and meets with Ihsan there. At that time Turkish War of Independence starts and they participate to this battle together.

Dir: Alan Crosland

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

A Russian prince has to flee his country after fighting a duel. He falls in love with a duchess, but becomes jealous when he finds out she has a lover.

Dir: H. Bruce Woolfe

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

Dir: Unknown Director

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: René Plaissetty

A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.

Dir: Antoni Bednarczyk

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

The north-eastern Polish province of Vilnius is after WW1 plundered by savage Bolsheviks. The heroic Polish army is bound to stop them.

Dir: Donald Crisp

During the Civil War, young widow Rachel Hayne is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death. When Gordon is wounded during an attempted escape, Rachel's loyalty impels her to try to save him by feigning his death. As Gordon's stretcher is carried through the hospital, Fielding demands an examination of the body, charging that Prescott is involved in a plot to smuggle the spy out of the hospital alive. General Stanton lifts the cover from the body, only to find that death has really come, freeing both Rachel and Prescott.

Dir: Fred Niblo

Highly decorated for her service as a wartime nurse, Mrs. Nancy Fair returns home after the hostilities to find her family falling apart. Nevertheless, she goes on a lecture tour in hopes of doing more good. Her second homecoming finds Mr. Fair involved in an affair with Angy Brice, a neighboring widow; her son, Alan, married and in bad company; and her daughter, Sylvia, eloped. The search for Sylvia brings Mrs. Fair to her senses and reunites the family.