Film Festival: Silent Greats The Big Parade (1925) is a silent classic, crafted by director King Vidor to be a memorable look at the American boys who fought in France during the Great War. War stories are an important part of our storytelling tradition. We attach romance to the idea of boys going off to…
World War I
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Wings (1927) – first Best Picture
Film Festival: Aviation Wings takes us back to those compelling days during World War I, the first American war in which airplanes and fliers were critically important. The Fokker, the Spad, the Sopwith Camel — all became part of the vocabulary of war. Women played a role in this war too, going to the fronts,…