George Valentin is a silent movie superstar who is losing his job and Peppy Miller is a young extra who has many prospects in her career.

A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.

"Peter Driscoll, an underground investigator, has never met anyone like Lily Temple. The silent-film actress plays frivolous roles, but beneath the costumes and makeup is a woman with a murky past. Peter has been tasked with locating the Briarwood Teardrop, an exquisite sapphire, which Lily wears beneath her gown. To hopefully unravel the mystery of her story, Peter employs Lily's help on a case. But as they are investigating together, Peter is also...

"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...