Watch magic on a stick FMovies. This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
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The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the...
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This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.
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The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015),...
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In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...
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In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...
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In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of...
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True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
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While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian...
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Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...
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For those who heart history and the great city of Chicago, this film will take you through time with a small child and his nervous babysitter. Feel...
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This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...
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This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.