The Bay of Death

The Bay of Death (1926) is Abram Room's silent Civil War drama, free to watch online on iFILM. A southern port has fallen to the White forces, and a handful of partisans hold out at an old lighthouse.

Among them is young Nikolai Razdolny, whose father — a ship's machinist — wants no part of his son's cause. The White Guard shadows the old man, seizes the crew of the steamer Lebed, and forces him back into the engine room. It all comes to a head as the ship closes on the lighthouse.

Room, who would later direct Bed and Sofa, frames the war as a fault line running through a single family: father against son, duty against blood. Stream The Bay of Death online on iFILM.