Silent Film Movies

A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.

A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger.

An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows...

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

The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he...

George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of...

Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.

Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the...

Silent film drama...

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its...

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....

“This subject taken just after the recent first fall of snow, shows two enthusiastic horsemen indulging in a "brush" with their respective...

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class...

Structured in visual chapters: the port, anchors, the wind, the spray, the dunes, the North Sea… A series of images that need no anecdote or...