World Cinema Classics Free on Youtube, Curated by Daniel Gauss

There are a zillion great, old films for free on youtube. I wanted to bring them together on one blog for lovers of older films or people who want to learn about film history and see some of the best films ever. When I was younger there was a theater called the Parkway (in Chicago) that showed such films. It was torn down (so it goes). So this blog is kind of my own personal Parkway. djg51qu@gmail.com I will post new films each Saturday.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Charlie Chaplin - A King in New York - 1957

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Click on "Watch on YouTube" to see the film. Joseph McCarthy was censured by the US Senate in 1954, and this brought to end the bi...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - 1927 - Walther Ruttman (1887 - 1941)

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  This film was made in 1927, two years before the Wall Street Crash adversely affected the global economy and 5 years before Hitler gained ...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

On the Beach, Stanley Kramer, 1959

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In this film there has been a nuclear war and people are dead on every continent except Australia. But the folks in Australia know that the ...
Monday, July 13, 2020

The Caretaker - 1963 - Clive Donner

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A Harold Pinter screenplay. A well-dressed man helps a homeless man and goes so far as to invite him to stay at his house. The well-dr...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Paths of Glory - 1958 - Stanley Kubrick

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French soldiers refuse to leave their trenches to attack the "Ant Hill", a heavily fortified German defensive emplacement. To d...

The Magnificent Seven - 1960 - John Sturges

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This film was based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. In this western the premise is that even the most reprobate can be reformed if giv...

Morituri - 1965 - Bernhard Wicki

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This film received luke-warm reviews in 1965 but it works. Yul Brenner plays a German captain who is blackmailed by the Nazis into takin...
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Daniel Gauss attended the University of Wisconsin (BA) and then Columbia University (MA). He has worked in the field of education and the social services his entire adult life, forswearing the profit-driven world for a life of service. He has spent most of his adult life in New York City and has lived in four different boroughs of the Apple. As well as working in New York City, he is proud of the ten years of volunteer work he did for the homeless and hungry in Manhattan at the Friends Shelter, located in a Quaker Meeting House near Union Square. When opportunity presented itself, he moved to the megacity of Shenzhen, China where he has been teaching English and other subjects to Chinese students. He has tried very hard to be a bridge between the cultures of the US and the Peoples Republic of China and hopes to do great things for the people of both societies.
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