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Milestones (1920)

Milestones poster
Directed by
Paul Scardon
Genre
drama film, silent film, historical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1 min
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent film follows a British upper-class family across several decades starting in the 1860s. It shows their personal changes and historical shifts over time.

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What happens

Milestones is a 1920 American silent historical drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Lewis Stone, Alice Hollister, and Gertrude Robinson. It is an adaptation of the 1912 West End play Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock. It is a saga of a British upper-class family from the 1860s to the present. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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