Silent Film Movies

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

Ko-Ko and Fitz emerge from an inkwell into the sultan's harem.

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Pal the dog saves a kidnapped baby from raging waterfalls and hungry alligators. (MoMA)

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

Ko-Ko the Clown thinks being a hero is easy, but his animator tries to prove him otherwise

In a scheme that is all the more convincing on silent film, Polydor attempts to fool a high-society mob with a no-talent singer who lip-synchs...

The pattern-living Paul Fowler has his routines disrupted by the contact-seeking photographer Jane.

Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and...

A historical drama depicting the Finnish struggle against Tsarist Russia. Opens at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in February 1899. Tsar...

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must...

Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue...

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt...

During an ascent of Canigou, a traveler falls into a precipice, his body rolling to the bottom of the abyss on the glistening snow of the glacier....

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...