Abel Gance Movies

BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.

Le périscope is a 1928 film

Le fou de la falaise is a 1916 silent film

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

La digue is a 1911 silent film

In August 1803, Napoleon’s police uncovered a British-backed Bourbon restoration plot implicating the Prince of Condé. Although his son,...

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

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

Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce...

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

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

Clarisse (aka 'Venus') learns that she will go blind in a year or two .Although pregnant by her lover, Madère, she pretends she's cheated and...

This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon...

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

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

Magirama version, which is one of the four segments of the Magirama program, designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel...