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MGM Plus
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8.5
/312987/
84
/4805/
84
/4668/
4.5
/417211/
90
/84/
96
/5148/
80
/21/
cc age 14+

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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Kanopy
79
7.5
/2357/
73
/110/
67
/65/
3.8
/5873/
100
/62/
70
/21/
86
/14/

Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)
The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
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Criterion Channel
75
55
7.0
/3192/
70
/108/
71
/116/
3.8
/10713/
100
/8/
68
/4/

Limite (1931)
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another. As they delve into their personal narratives, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to this desolate predicament, they navigate through the depths of three distinct destinies. Bound by the confines of their shared space, every aspect of their existence becomes a boundary, underscoring their plight.
poster
74
51
7.2
/1125/
68
/26/
64
/24/
3.8
/2417/
87
/15/
80
/36/

Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
42
7.2
/1734/
59
/38/
63
/37/
3.3
/4015/

Age of Bloom (2001)
A montage of scenes from vintage Chinese films—most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered in a California warehouse in the 1990s—set to the song "Hua yang de nian hua" ("Age of Bloom") by Zhou Xuan.
poster
Kanopy
81
27
7.8
/323/
77
/17/
81
/8/
3.7
/891/
92
/13/
85
/1/

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2022)
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.
poster
61
4
6.9
/229/
35
/2/
70
/1/
3.5
/271/

Lyrical Nitrate (1991)
Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.
poster
69
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6.8
/65/
67
/4/
70
/1/
3.6
/302/

Flame (2018)
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.
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10
/1/

The Last Newsreel (1989)
A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian newsreel films, done in the style of a vintage newsreel.
poster
62
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6.4
/142/
60
/1/

Home Movies (1940)
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
poster
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7.1
/63/
70
/1/
75
/2/

The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema (2014)
One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American’s pioneering motion picture studios during the first decade of the twentieth century. It traces the evolution of one family’s career as it transitioned from producing live theater to establishing one of the most successful independent silent motion picture studios. The Thanhouser Studio produced and released over 1,000 silent motion pictures that were acclaimed by critics and seen by audiences around the world. Set against a background of the industry playing out in New York, Florida and California, it is a compelling story of fame and fortune, twisted by the vagaries of fate and ending on a bittersweet note.
poster
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7.1
/58/
55
/4/

You Must Remember This (1992)
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers his strong principles when it came to supporting his actors and his art overall.
poster
?
7.9
/61/
75
/2/
50
/1/

Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation (2011)
This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.
poster
?
7.0
/13/
60
/1/

Eden's Ark (2011)
Eden's Ark is a journey through the dramatic, chaotic, precarious world of botany and film preservation. A journey in danger and poetry, across the ice and the tropics, following adventurers and preservers, and confronting what we lose and save.


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