This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French...
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1984
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1971
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Celebrated director Abel Gance was recruited by the state-run television network of France for this version of the famous...
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Director
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1967
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Dialogue Writer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1963
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1963
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1960
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1956
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Director
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1953
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Director
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1943
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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Originally released in 1939 as Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost), Abel Gance's Four Flights to Love is typical of the great...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1940
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What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie...
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Director
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1939
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This 1938 sci-fi and horror-tinged war drama from writer/director Abel Gance is an updated remake of Gance's own 1919 silent...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1937
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Director Abel Gance was several degrees removed from his silent masterpiece Napoleon when he called the shots on the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1936
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This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1936
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Director
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1935
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Director
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1935
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With director Abel Gance at the helm, the title character in Lucrezia Borgia exudes more sex appeal and wears fewer clothes...
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Director
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1935
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Supervisor/Manager
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1934
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Director
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1934
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Director, Screenwriter, Supervisor/Manager
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1933
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Le Serment (The Pledge) was a minor "entertainment" from legendary French filmmaker Abel Gance -- so minor that it seldom...
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Director
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1932
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Never one to do anything by halves, director Abel Gance delivers just what the title La Fin du Monde promises: The End of the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Jean Novalic
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1931
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The chef d'ouevre of legendary French filmmaker Abel Gance, the 235-minute Napoleon was supposed to have been the first...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Saint-Just
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1927
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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Producer
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1923
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Sisif (Severin-Mars) is the kindly railroad engineer who adopts the orphan girl Norma (Ivy Close). He raises her as his own...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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Producer
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1920
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France's innovative film pioneer Abel Gance had already served briefly in World War I, but he enlisted again so he could film...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1919
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La Dixieme Symphony was the second film for director Abel Gance and the first to earn international acclaim. The story, set...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1917
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Director, Screenwriter
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1917
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Director, Screenwriter
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1917
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Director, Screenwriter
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1916
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Director
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1912
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Director, Screenwriter
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1912
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Director, Screenwriter
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1912
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Director, Screenwriter
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1912
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Screenwriter
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1911
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Director, Screenwriter
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1911
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Screenwriter
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1911
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Screenwriter
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1910
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Screenwriter
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1910
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Screenwriter
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1910
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Screenwriter
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1910
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Screenwriter
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1909
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1909
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