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Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die!
The Cinema of Eisenstein
Behind the mask of innocence
Hollywood, the pioneers
Soviet cinema in the silent era, 1918-1935
The last days of Leda Grey
Documentary film
Silent Comedy
A Companion to Weimar Cinema (Film and Culture)
Silent movie
Gentlemen to the rescue
Stars of the silents
Sanctuary Cinema
Dark lady of the silents; my life in early Hollywood
Parallel Tracks
Kafka geht ins Kino
Silent film sound
The piano man
Missing reels
Vamp
Silent film
The Grin of the Dark
Sex goddesses of the silent screen
Picture perfect
Music for silent films, 1894-1929
Shakespeare on silent film
American film cycles
The movies in the age of innocence
Beauty and the brain
The history of motion pictures
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