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

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.

Dir: Unknown Director

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Alan Crosland

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: Franklin B. Coates

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

Depicts Jesse James' return home to Missouri after the Civil War hoping to live a life of peace, but is falsely accused of robbing a bank. He is forced to take up a life of crime by being branded an outlaw. Crimes are commited and blamed on him, his family is maimed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, but all the while James is able to perform charitable acts to citizens. James is finally assasinated by Bob Ford. All told in a flashback style by Jesse James Jr. to a eastern baeu asking for his daughters' hand in marrage.

Dir: Richard Boleslawski

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

Dir: Anthony Young

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Jesse James as the Outlaw perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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.

Dir: Rex Ingram

An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

Dir: Percy Nash

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

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

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.

Dir: René Plaissetty

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