Cecil B. DeMille Movies

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But...

Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity...

Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with...

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Thomas Brainerd, Sr., as a prospector, is a dutiful and loving husband and father, but when he strikes gold he becomes obsessed with business and all...

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.

Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money in is valueless, though Fleming has discovered a...

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to...

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.

The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino;...

Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...