Friday | November 11, 2005 7:00 pm

The Big Parade

Live piano accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

Directed by King Vidor.
With John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth.
US, 1925, 35mm, black & white, silent, 118 min.

Vidor's stunning antiwar film is one of the classics of silent cinema.Containing realistic, remarkably staged battle sequences and moments of powerful drama, the film follows the enlistment and service of an American soldier (silent-screen great Gilbert) who fights in France in World War I. Though the film was made in the early years of American filmmaking, Vidor has a superior command of the medium, creating scenes that are not only brilliantly constructed but achingly intimate and disturbing.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

July 30–August 5, 2001

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Directors U–Z

June 26–August 15, 2004

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: A–Z

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue