Ambrose Bierce

It is 2021, and imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces government execution as he contemplates a desperate escape attempt in order to return to his wife and new-born in The Exit Room. (vimeo.com/92044309)

The Damned Thing, inspired by Ambrose Bierce's classic short-story, is the apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his small Texas town. (Wikipedia)

Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California.

In an undefined city, around the year 1700, the young Benedicta is stigmatized by the community for being the daughter of the local butcher. The monk Ambrosius, newcomer, pities the girl. His interest in her triggers jealously in Rochus, the son of a powerful man, and an internal conflict between passion and compassion, the commitment among clergy and so-called pleasure.

Takes an arty approach which stresses the metaphysical dread of a man encountering an invisible entity which slaughters people in the marshes. (imdb)

A Union prisoner-of-War, captured behind Confederate lines, and condemned to be shot,, argues with his captors about what lies beyond mortality.

The story is set in 1830s, shortly after the November Uprising in Poland. Julian, a young man with artistic interests, comes back home from abroad, where he studied history of art and anatomy. He wants to visit his father and meet his new wife, Katarzyna. Julian's mother died 6 years ago and although her husband promised her that he will never get married again, he broke this oath. The woman's ghost has not abandoned the house and is waiting for the punishment for her unfaithful spouse. (imdb)

Stephen Royds wants to buy a property that has been empty for twenty years and has a sinister past.

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death. (imdb)

This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird." (imdb)

A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away, instead of breaking his neck, he manages to miraculously escape unscathed or did he? (imdb)

Adapted from a short story by Ambrose Bierce, a young, deaf-mute witnesses the carnage of the American Civil War as a surrealistic dream. (imdb)

A Civil War story by Ambrose Bierce of a Union Army soldier who, in the cover of night, kills a Confederate soldier, only to discover the next day that the soldier is his twin brother. (imdb)

A convicted spy manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge when the rope breaks and flees for his life and freedom in this short silent film from Charles Vidor, his first as director. (IMDB Comments)