The third groundbreaking DVD project in the National Film Preservation Fund's Treasures From American Film Archives series. Treasures III furthers their efforts to preserve film history while entertaining intrepid viewers and dutiful scholars alike. The set features commentary by 20 experts, including Tom Gunning and Gregory A. Waller, newly recorded music in two-track stereo, and over 48 rare feature films, cartoons, newsreels, serials and more, all digitally mastered from the finest archival sources preserved by the George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Topics include organized crime, police corruption, orphans, juvenile reformatories, women's suffrage, abortion, union struggles, immigration, racial conflicts and much more. USA, 1900-1934, 739 mins.

Program 1 - The City Reformed: The Black Hand (Wallace McCutcheon, 1906, 11 mins.); How They Rob Men in Chicago (Wallace McCutcheon, 1900, 25 secs.); The Voice of the Violin (D.W. Griffith, 1909, 16 mins.); The Usurer's Grip (Bannister Merwin, 1912, 15 mins.); From the Submerged (Theodore Wharton, 1912, 11 mins.); Hope: A Red Cross Seal Story (Edison Company, 1912, 14 mins.); The Cost of Carelessness (Prizma Inc., 1913, 13 mins.); Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million (Ford Motor Company, 1920, 7 mins.); 6,000,000 American Children (Selznick News, 1922, 2 mins.); The Soul of Youth (William Desmond Taylor, 1920, 80 mins.); excerpts from Saved by the Juvenile Court (Otis B. Thayer, 1913, 4 mins.); A Call for Help from Sing Sing! (1934, 3 mins.)

Program 2 - New Women: Kansas Saloon Smashers (Edwin S. Porter, 1901, 1 min.); Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1901, 2 mins.); Trial Marriages (American Mutoscope & Biograph, 1907, 12 mins.); Manhattan Trade School for Girls (1911, 16 mins.); The Strong Arm Squad of the Future (1912, 1 min.); A Lively Affair (James Young, 1912, 7 mins.); A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (Bannister Merwin, 1912, 8 mins.); On to Washington (1913, 80 secs.); The Hazards of Helen: Episode 13 (J.P. McGowan/James D. Davis, 1915, 3 mins.); Where are My Children? (Phillips Smalley/Lois Weber, 1916, 65 mins.); The Courage of the Commonplace (Rollin S. Sturgeon, 1913, 13 mins.); Poor Mrs. Jones! (USDA, 1926, 46 mins.); Offers Herself as Bride for $10,000 (1931, 2 mins.)

Program 3 - Toil and Tyranny: Uncle Sam and the Bolshviki-I.W.W. Rat (Ford Motor Company, 1919, 40 secs.); The Crime of Carelessness (James Oppenheim, 1912, 14 mins.); Who Pays?: Episode 12 (Harry Harvey/H.M. Horkheimer/Henry King, 1915, 35 mins.); surviving reel of Labor's Reward (Union Label Trades Dept./American Federation of Labor, 1925, 13 mins.); Listen to Some Words of Wisdom (1930, 2 mins.); The Godless Girl (Cecil B. DeMille, 1928, 128 mins.)

Program 4 - Americans in the Making: Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1903, 2 mins.); An American in the Making (Thanhouser Film Corp., 1913, 15 mins.); Ramona (D.W. Griffith, 1910, 16 mins.); Redskin (Victor Schertzinger, 1929, 82 mins.); The United Snakes of America (Ford Motor Company, 1917, 80 secs.); Uncle Sam Donates for Liberty Loans (Ford Motor Company, 1919, 75 secs.); 100% American (Arthur Rosson, 1918, 14 mins.); Bud's Recruit (King Vidor, 1918, 26 mins.); The Reawakening (1919, 10 mins.); Eight Prohibition Newsreels (1923-1933, 13 mins.).