Movies

During a railway journey, Baron van Geldern meets Evelyne, an attractive young woman travelling in the same carriage. After the train is derailed,...

The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are...

Marlene Dietrich's screen tests for the classic 1930 German film The Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg.

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to...

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in...

Legendary actress and singer Marlene Dietrich reflects on her life, international career, and fame during a Swedish television appearance.

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.

The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.

This visual essay focuses on the visual style and composition of the Hollywood films made together by Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich.

Heads Up, Charley is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Anton Pointner, and Michael Bohnen. Marlene...

A short audiovisual video essay on the seven films made by Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, presented by film historian Tag Gallagher.