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A Trip to the Moon (1902) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:12:15 +0000

12min. // Considered the first sci-fi movie, A Trip to the Moon is a French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne’s novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon’s surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. It features an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers, led by Méliès himself in the main role of Professor Barbenfouillis, and is filmed in the overtly theatrical style for which Méliès became famous.

Directed by: Georges Méliès

Writing Credits: Georges Méliès, Jules Verne (novel), H. G. Wells (novel)

Starring: Georges Méliès (as Professor Barbenfouillis), Victor André (as an Astronomer) and Bleuette Bernon (as the Lady in the Moon)

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Awards:

WON. Online Film & Television Association, 2017. Motion Picture. Georges Méliès

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:10:36 +0000

1h 40min. // Based on Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, this is the first movie filmed underwater. It tells the story of Captain Nemo who has built a fantastic submarine, the Nautilus, for his mission of revenge. Accompanied by a French professor and his daughter, the three of them will live an amazing adventure aboard the submarine.

Directed by: Stuart Paton

Writing Credits: Jules Verne (novel)

Starring: Allen Holubar (as Capt. Nemo), Dan Hanlon (as Professor Aronnax) and Edna Pendleton (as Aronnax’s Daughter)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 2016. Stuart Paton

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The Gold Rush (1925) [Silent Movie]

sergio — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:22 +0000

1h 35min. // During the Gold Rush, a lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. As he encounter one adventure after another, he falls in love with the beautiful Georgia.

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Writing Credits: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin (as The Lone Prospector), Mack Swain (as Big Jim McKay) and Tom Murray (as Black Larsen)

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Awards:

WON. Kinema Junpo Awards 1927. Best Foreign Language Film. Charles Chaplin.

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1992. National Film Registry.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2010. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Sound, Recording. James L. Fields.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Max Terr.

NOMINATED. Satellite Awards 2004. Best Classic DVD Release. For “The Charlie Chaplin Collection” (Warner).

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The Lost World (1925) [Silent Movie]

sergio — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:06:01 +0000

1h 46min. // Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White’s daughter, Paula. Malone’s paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.

Directed by: Harry O. Hoyt

Writing Credits: Arthur Conan Doyle (based upon the 1912 novel by) and Marion Fairfax (screenplay)

Starring: Wallace Beery (as Prof. Challenger), Bessie Love (as Paula White), Lloyd Hughes (as Ed Malone) and Lewis Stone (as Sir John Roxton)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1998. National Film Registry.

NOMINATED. Annie Awards, 1994. Best Animated Home Video Release.

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The General (1926) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:05:36 +0000

1h 18min. // When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

Directed by: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

Writing Credits: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (screenplay)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as Johnnie Gray), Marion Mack (as Annabelle Lee), Glen Cavender (as Captain Anderson) and Jim Farley (as General Thatcher)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989. National Film Registry.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2009. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2013. Best DVD/Blu-Ray Collection.

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North West Frontier (1959)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:05:24 +0000

2h. 9min. // Also know as The Flame Over India. In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Writing Credits: Patrick Ford (story), Will Price (story), Robin Estridge (screenplay), Frank S. Nugent (screenplay)

Starring: Kenneth More (as Capt. Scott), Lauren Bacall (as Catherine Wyatt), Herbert Lom (as Van Leyden), Wilfrid Hyde-White (as Bridie) and I.S. Johar (as Gupta)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best British Film. J. Lee Thompson.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best British Screenplay. Robin Estridge.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best Film from any Source. J. Lee Thompson.

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Captain Kidd (1945)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:05:02 +0000

1h 20min. // Captain William Kidd, a clever and ruthless pirate, captures an English galleon’s treasure and hides it on an island. After this, he tricks the king King William III into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India.

Directed by: Rowland V. Lee

Writing Credits: Norman Reilly Raine (screenplay), Robert N. Lee (story)

Starring: Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd), Randolph Scott (as Adam Mercy / Adam Blayne) and Barbara Britton (as Lady Anne Dunstan)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1946. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Werner Janssen

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The Rains Came (1939)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:03:22 +0000

1h. 43min. // Lady Edwina Esketh, a British aristocrat living in India with her crude husband, falls for Major Rama Safti, a handsome Indian doctor committed to helping the poor. Their love story is threatened when a widespread plague starts.

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Writing Credits: Philip Dunne (screenplay), Julien Josephson (screenplay), Louis Bromfield (novel)

Starring: Myrna Loy (as Lady Edwina Esketh), Tyrone Power (as Major Rama Safti) and George Brent (as Tom Ransome)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Effects, Special Effects. Fred Sersen (photographic) and Edmund H. Hansen (sound).

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Arthur C. Miller.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Art Direction. William S. Darling, George Dudley.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Sound, Recording. Edmund H. Hansen.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Film Editing. Barbara McLean.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1940. Best Music, Original Score. Alfred Newman.

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Road to Rio (1947)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:00:02 +0000

1h 40min. // Bing Crosby and Bob Hope join together to make you laugh in this musical comedy. Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Writing Credits: Edmund Beloin (story and screenplay), Jack Rose (story and screenplay)

Starring: Bing Crosby (as Scat Sweeney), Bob Hope (as Hot Lips Barton) and Dorothy Lamour (as Lucia Maria de Andrade)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1948. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Robert Emmett Dolan.

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Keep em Flying (1941)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:00:03 +0000

1h 26min. // When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn’t know what it’s in for. An Abbott and Costello movie.

Directed by: Arthur Lubin

Writing Credits: True Boardman (screenplay), Nat Perrin (screenplay), John Grant (screenplay), Edmund L. Hartmann (story)

Starring: Bud Abbott (as Blackie Benson), Lou Costello (as Heathcliff), Martha Raye (as Gloria Phelps / Barbara Phelps), Carol Bruce (as Linda Joyce), William Gargan (as Craig Morrison), Dick Foran (as Jinx Roberts) and Charles Lang (as Jim Joyce)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2009. Best DVD Collection. As part of “Abbott & Costello: Complete Universal Series Collection”.