Treasures III: Social Issues In American Film - 1900-1934

48 Movies That Helped Change America

Prohibition, abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, organized crime, loan sharking, race relations, juvenile justice, homelessness, immigration - virtually no social issue was too controversial for movies during their first decades. These issues and more are brought to life through 48 films preserved by George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Archives, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Treasures III presents the turbulent period when movies helped change America.

Cecil B. De Mille's The Godless Girl

Lois Weber's anti-abortion film Where Are My Children

Redskin in 2-strip Technicolor

William Desmond Taylor's The Soul of Youth

First Mafia film, The Black Hand

Management's retelling of the Triangle Factory fire

A Call for Help from Sing Sing! with Warden Lawes

Episodes from Who Pay's? and The Hazards of Helen

Mary Pickford in Ramona and 100% American

Earliest surviving traffic safety film for students

Manhattan Trade School for Girls

Terrorists in The Voice of the Violin

Documentary plea for disabled veterans

Trial marriage and suffragette comedies

Political cartoons, newsreels, and more...

For a full list, see www.filmpreservation.org