Ignite Films has more than 20 years of broad experience in the restoration, marketing and distribution of (American) Classic Film. Formerly known as TV Matters, IGNITE owns, maintains and sells media rights to more than 200 Classic titles world-wide. From 1996, the company had significantly upgraded over 100 Classic films from its Digital Library through digital wetgate transfer from film to tape, color correction and digital audio and video restoration. Starting in 2004, IGNITE FILMS began the exciting transition to High Definition standard; performing film transfers from the original film elements (held at UCLA Film & Television Archives) of its Select Features Library. IGNITE is dedicated to the films of the past and committed to using the best technology available to present them far into the future!
Flicker Alley presents the restored Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) in its original 1902 colors More info...
Collection featuring eight seminal films from the Soviet silent era! More info...
14 short films- some favorites, others unfamiliar - made between 1902 and 1964. More info...
A documentary about one of the great, unfinished works in film history, Inferno, by Henri-Georges Clouzot. More info...
1929's epically scaled Norwegian feature comes from Danish-German director and noted cinematographer George Schnéevoigt . More info...
Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. More info...
Like the musical Chicago, this original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. More info...
René Clair’s sparkling comedy of manners is a witty, delicate, inspired satire on propriety and behavior in the bourgeois mind-set. More info...
Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 and from it cascaded many fantastic films. More info...
Miss Mend, a 1926 three-part serial / adventure film from Soviet directors Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. More info...
Bardelys the Magnificent joins Monte Cristo as two resurrected classics. More info...
Discover a time when the truest adventure had the wind at your back and an infinite horizon all around. More info...
Includes eleven of the joyful modern-dress comedies, westerns, satires, dream-fantasies and romances. More info...
Two riveting and important social dramas of the American silent screen from the earliest years of feature-length cinema. More info...
Abel Gance’s WW I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. More info...
Never before released in the United States, this monumental French film is one of the most extraordinary achievements in the whole history of cinema. More info...
Georges Méliès was a genuine virtuoso, producing and directing his own films while also devising the narratives. More info...
A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. More info...
Discovering Cinema is a 2-disc DVD set comprised of Learning to Talk and Movies Dream in Color. More info...
Valentino is the definitive Rudolph Valentino DVD compilation featuring digital reconstructions of four previously unavailable films. More info...
Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. More info...
The mysterious Judex (René Cresté) is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker and his secret love. More info...
This comedy from 1928 was an important film for both its star, Corrine Griffith, and director, Lewis Milestone. More info...