The Sins of the Children
A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
The story of an orphan boy who, due to the cruelty of others, is drawn into a life of sin on the streets prior to the redemption of a caring foster family.
A Swiss family of immigrants are relocating to a colony in when their ship is attacked by pirates and flees into a storm. The crew abandons ship and is lost, and the ship runs aground off of an uninh…
A depraved child murderer is terrorizing Berlin. Without any other leads to go on, the police launch a massive crackdown on the city’s underworld. With their livelihoods under pressure, the city’s cri…
Three German refugees just prior to World War II are at the beck and call of the Nazis, always hiding, always in fear of the Gestapo. A political dissident, a Jewish chemist, fleeing for her life; an…
When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
A couple traveling through a backwoods area are held by a a group of orphans who want them to become their parents. Unfortunately, the kids have a habit of killing adults who refuse that particular ho…
A Japanese orphan is raised in the United States by American parents. But the young man falls under the influence of a Bushido-spouting Japanese priest and becomes radicalized. As World War II dawns i…
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's…
A 13-year-old New York City street kid is sent via the Orphan Train to Nebraska, where he is adopted by a Swedish immigrant family.
An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
An embattled attorney fights to topple corrupt town officials by running for mayor, and is aided by a visiting stranger, who's actually a vacationing Supreme Court justice, John Josephus Grant.
Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
Little Men (1940), based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel, follows Jo March and her husband as they nurture and guide the boys at Plumfield School. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, it’s a heartwarming tale o…
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in th…
Torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife.
In Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.