Metropolis (1927) Sunday 9-18 @ 9:00 pm pacific. the Fritz Lang silent classic.
Things to Come (1936) follows Metropolis Monday 9-19 @ 21:45 am pacific. from the H G Wells 1933 novel. he also wrote the screen play.
I think they are worth watching because it's interesting to see what movie people thought the future would be back in the 1920's and 30's and the early special effects esp in Metropolis.
the "Making of Metropolis" short was about an original print that was found at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2008 that had the "lost scenes" from the cut for the American market original. the one that ran on TCM was the new 2010 restoration. 
like Francis Ford Coppola's 2001 "directors cut" of his1979 Apocalypse Now original, Apocalypse Now "Redux", the added Metropolis scenes add a lot of context to the cut original. you can tell the added scenes because they are more grainy than the 1984 restoration.
the "transformation scene" from Metropolis >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPYrepCGL-I&feature=related
has influenced SciFi and Horror film directors for almost a century from Frankenstein in 1931 to Splice in 2009 and hundreds in between.
Things to Come (1936)
WOW!!! What a TURKEY!!!
screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come. interesting to see what "futurists" like Wells thought the next 100 years would bring to the world. kinda funny how he got it just about ALL WRONG ex for the terror bombing of cities during WWII and they got the use of poison gas in those scenes incorrect.
probably a movie that the decendants of great actors like Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke would like to forget.
the whole damn movie looked like a propaganda argument for a "One World Order" style government. 
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