Silent Film Movies

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore...

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears...

When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the...

Upon learning that notorious art thief Alf Wilson plans to steal his valuable paintings, idle millionaire Travers Gladwyn decides to amuse himself by...

Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, Walt Disney's earlier character, before going on to create Mickey Mouse. Here he is canoeing in the wilderness.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen...

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.

A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...

Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

A mad doctor uses his powers of telepathy to control a beautiful young girl. The survival status of the film is presumed lost.

Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their...