Movies

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

La digue is a 1911 silent film

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded...

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of...

Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin...

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel...

The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.

Film by Abel Gance.

Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not...

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928