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3 days ago · This is a list of American films released in 1927, All films on this list are in the Public Domain since 2023. The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. 1927 Academy Award nominees. The 1st Academy Awards were presented in Los Angeles on May 16, 1929 at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
May 16, 2024 · Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)
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1 day ago · Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment).
May 18, 2024 · Bath school disaster, pair of bombings on May 18, 1927, of Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan, U.S., that killed 38 schoolchildren. The perpetrator, Andrew Kehoe, also killed five adults in addition to himself in the worst school massacre in American history.
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May 16, 2024 · The United States of America. The Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945. The World Wars ended the United States' policy of isolationism and left it as a world superpower. The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II .
May 17, 2024 · Philo Farnsworth, American inventor who developed the first all-electronic television system. He made his first successful electronic television transmission in 1927. Farnsworth’s later work included the fusor, a proposed nuclear fusion device. Learn more about his life and career.
5 days ago · The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, sometimes called the April 12 Incident, was the violent suppression of Communist Party organizations in Shanghai by the military forces of Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT).
