Charles Boyer

A suave jewel thief hides out in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, safe from the French police, until a beautiful French tourist tempts him toward the outside world. Charles Boyer's performance inspired Pepe le Pew, and Hedy Lamarr made her American debut. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Crime · Drama · Romance

A French playboy and an American singer meet aboard an ocean liner and fall in love, though both are engaged to others. They agree to reunite in six months atop the Empire State Building to test their love. Leo McCarey's original was remade by him as An Affair to Remember and later by Warren Beatty. The 1939 version lapsed into the public domain through non-renewal.

Romance · Drama

Directed by the renowned photographer Edward Steichen while he served in the U.S. Navy, this documentary follows life aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, identified only as "the Fighting Lady" for wartime security (she was the USS Yorktown). The film moves from the routines of life at sea through the Panama Canal to combat in the Marcus Islands and the climactic "Marianas Turkey Shoot," where American pilots downed nearly four hundred Japanese aircraft. Cameras mounted in cockpit canopies show what it is like to dive through anti-aircraft fire. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the film is in the public domain.

War · Documentary