- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound - 5.1 Dolby surround.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental material: audio commentaries; essay book.
Titles
+ Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
- Director:
- Abadie, A. C.
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A simple documentary of immigrants arriving in America at Ellis Island, New York on July 9, 1903. Includes optional commentary by Richard Abel.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ American in the Making, An
- Director:
- Gregory, Carl L.
- Production Co:
- Thanhouser Film Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A drama about an Eastern European immigrant coming to America. Includes optional commentary by Richard Abel.
+ Ramona
- Alternate Title:
- Ramona: A Story of the White Man’s Injustice to the Indian
- Director:
- Griffith, D. W.
- Production Co:
- Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   16 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. Includes optional commentary by Chon A. Noriega.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Redskin
- Director:
- Schertzinger, Victor
- Production Co:
- Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
- Running Time:
- Feature.   82 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama, Western
- Notes:
- A young Navajo returns to the Reservation after being educated as a white man, and finds himself an outcast. An indictment of the government’s efforts to “civilize” the Native American population (partially inspired by the 1926 film THE VANISHING AMERICAN). New music score by Martin Marks, based on original score by J.S. Zamecnik. Includes optional commentary by Margaret Archuleta.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ United Snakes of America, The
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Ford Motor Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1917
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. An animated editorial cartoon condemning pro-German or antiwar elements. Includes optional commentary by Kristen Whissel.
+ Uncle Sam Donates for Liberty Loans
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Ford Motor Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A cartoon expressing support for liberty loans. Includes optional commentary by Kristen Whissel.
+ 100% American
- Director:
- Rosson, Arthur
- Production Co:
- Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short.   14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A drama in support of Liberty Bonds with Mary Pickford. Includes optional commentary by Kristen Whissel.
+ Bud’s Recruit
- Director:
- Vidor, King
- Production Co:
- Boy City Film Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   26 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Comedy - Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A comic but pointed tale about a boy who sets an unyieldingly patriotic example against his draft-age brother and peace-society mother. Includes optional commentary by Jere Guldin.
+ Reawakening, The
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Ford Motor Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with new music score. A brief chronicle of the treatment of soldiers returning after the war. Includes optional commentary by Kristen Whissel.
+ “Eight Prohibition Newsreels”
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- International Newsreel Corp; Hearst Metrotone News Inc.
- Running Time:
- Compilation.   13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923 - 1933
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Sound and silent with musical accompaniment. A series of newsreels about prohibition: CAPITAL STIRRED BY BIGGEST HOOCH RAID (1923); BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE BOOTLEGGERS (1926); MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE THIRSTY (1930); HOOVER BOARD’S DRY LAW REPORT STIRS NATION (1931); SOME OPINIONS ON HOOVER BOARD’S DRY LAW REPORT (1931); DRY AGENTS STILL ON THE JOB (1932); FIRST REPEAL GIN SHIPPED (1933); REPEAL BRINGS WET FLOOD! (1933).