Abel Gance Movies

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

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.

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...

A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

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

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...

L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.

Le périscope is a 1928 film

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

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

A color test film of the Proterama process created by Abel Gance.

L'héroïsme de Paddy is a 1915 silent film

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

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928