[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1779492) **8.2** The American Dream is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? The American Dream takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track. ## Directors  **Tad Lumpkin**  **Harold Uhl**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005960) **6.9** [](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/regeneration/) **100%**
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
## Director
 **Raoul Walsh**
## Cast
 **Rockliffe Fellowes - Owen [at 25] Conway**
 **Anna Q. Nilsson - Marie Deering**
 **William Sheer - Skinny**
 **Carl Harbaugh - Ames, District Attorney**
 **James A. Marcus - Jim Conway**
 **John McCann - Owen [age 10]**
 **Harry McCoy - Owen at 17 (as H. McCoy)**
 **Peggy Barn**
 **Maggie Weston - Maggie Conway**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014660) **4.7**
The Three Bears are busy cooking when Baby Bear realises his recipe requires hops. Naturally his first inclination is to go find some frogs to provide for him his hops, so he runs off and pursues a frog at the local pond. In the meantime Alice and her cat stumble upon the Three Bears' house and sneak inside (Ma and Pa Bear are nowhere to be seen).
## Director
 **Walt Disney**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010708) **5.9**
When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight.
## Director
 **William Duncan**
## Cast
 **William Duncan - Dan Stevens**
 **Edith Johnson - Helen Cole**
 **Joe Ryan - "Wirenail" Hedges**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011979) **6.8** [](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blot/) **100%**
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
## Director
 **Lois Weber**
## Cast
 **Philip Hubbard - Prof. Andrew Theodore Griggs**
 **Margaret McWade - Mrs. Griggs**
 **Claire Windsor - Amelia Griggs**
 **Louis Calhern - Phil West**
 **Marie Walcamp - Juanita Claredon**
 **William H. O'Brien - College Student (uncredited)**
 **Gertrude Short - Neighbor Olsen's Daughter (uncredited)**
 **Larry Steers - Dinner Guest (uncredited)**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007610) **5.8**
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
## Director
 **Ruth Ann Baldwin**
## Cast
 **Joseph W. Girard - Judge Brand (as Joseph Girard)**
 **Leo Pierson - Tom Reeves aka Tom Robbins**
 **William Dyer - J. Gordon Castle (as William J. Dyer)**
 **Mattie Witting - 'Ma' Bobbett (as Martha Witting)**
 **George C. Pearce - Ezra 'Pa' Bobbett (as George Pearce)**
 **Jean Hersholt - 'Gentleman Jim' Raynor**
 **Donna Drew - Peggy Bobbett**
 **Phyllis Haver - Young Bee Adams (uncredited)**
 **Bud Osborne - Cowboy Pitchman (uncredited)**
 **Zasu Pitts - Party Guest (uncredited)**
 **Lon Poff - Bald-Headed Wrangler (uncredited)**
 **Harry L. Rattenberry - Colonel Hungerford (uncredited)**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016409) **6.7**
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
## Director
 **Dimitri Buchowetzki**
## Cast
 **Frances Howard - Alexandra, The Swan**
 **Adolphe Menjou - Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels**
 **Ricardo Cortez - Dr. Walter, the Tutor**
 **Ida Waterman - Princess Beatrice**
 **Helen Lindroth - Amphirosa**
 **Helen Lee Worthing - Wanda von Gluck**
 **Joseph Depew - Prince George**
 **George Walcott - Prince Arsene**
 **Michael Vavitch - Colonel Wunderlich (as Mikhael Vavitch)**
 **Nicholas Soussanin - Lutzow**
 **Arthur Donaldson - Franz, the Court Chamberlain**
 **General Lodijensky - Master of the Hunt**
 **Clare Eames - Princess Dominica**
 **Michael Visaroff - Father Hyacinth**
[](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056983) **5.7** [](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dementia_13/) **63%**
When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.
## Director
 **Francis Ford Coppola**
## Cast
 **William Campbell - Richard Haloran**
 **Luana Anders - Louise Haloran**
 **Bart Patton - Billy Haloran**
 **Mary Mitchel - Kane**
 **Patrick Magee - Dr. Justin Caleb**
 **Eithne Dunne - Lady Haloran**
 **Peter Read - John Haloran**
 **Karl Schanzer - Simon**
 **Ron Perry - Arthur**
 **Derry O'Donavan - Lillian**
 **Barbara Dowling - Kathleen**