Silent Film Movies

A cute show. The balloon bouncing off the set breaks the illusion of depth in the backdrop.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is ...

An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, reminiscing about his amazing journey from his poverty- stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention o...

A magician shows tricks with money.

A commercial. Four men are talking outside. There is a sign.

She left for Paris on her own because she thought she had been cheated on. After spending a year in the city as a mistress, she is back with her husband. She can choose between a glamorous life in Par...

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era, with clips from their films and biographical information.

King Richard goes on the Crusades and leaves his brother Prince John as regent, who becomes a cruel, grasping tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by a message from his lady-love Marian, the Earl of Hu...

The House of the Devil was released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle. The film tells the story of an encounter with the Devil. It is intended to evoke am...

A janitor was fired for accidentally hitting his boss with his bucket of water. illon, one of the junior managers, is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts. The manager took ...

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an a...

His wife reads about an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. In order to escape, Roscoe disguises himself as a nurse.

A woman reappears after vanishing.

He is a master at solving mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him in his latest case. He insists that he did not commit the crime. There is evidence against him, but his friend. A person is sta...

A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the ghost appearing compels her to remain. He explains to ...

Three hunters surprise a couple of people. The hunters chase each other through fields and over fences. The hunters shoot away, but the Poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties f...

When a couple of scam artists hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the location of letters that could cause a scandal in the royal family, the case is taken over by the sleuths. Ther...

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. ...

A person is drawing on a board.

Don Juan de Marana learned from his father that women give you three things - life, disillusionment and death. Donna Elvira and his father's wife supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after at...

A prince is giving a princess to him at the royal court when a witch shows up. The princess is carried off by some of the witch's servants. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate cap...

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother while hunting, an event which led to the popularizatio...

An actor is playing a monster.

The mother-in-law is moving in with the family.

Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon. Marie is going to meet and seduce him. His wife and their two children saw ...

When Madame Souza's grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with an old song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire to rescue him.

The most important family in the area is Sheriff Jim and his sons. Harold, the timid youngest son, doesn't have the strength to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his st...

During America's Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General', with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar, and he must do all he can to get it back.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow, there was a fancy restaurant that served the appetites and egos of the rich. One such establishment employs a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to...

The house that Charlie and his boss are going to wallpaper is difficult to get to. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is yelling at the maid as they arrive. The kitch...

A couple of kids lay their hands on a pot of very strong glue and proceed to wreak havoc.

A British trick film with stop-motion animation by an unknown film maker.

This subject portrays in a vivid manner the operations of a puppet in his efforts to see the sights.

After prohibition went into effect, Judge Rummy's wife threw away all of the Judge's liquor. She wants the lecturer to use him as an example of the harms of drinking. While waiting for the lecturer, J...

The erotic silent short was shot in three days and shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets ve...

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator Robert W. Paul in March 1895, was the "first succes...

The Junior Commodore Cup Race in Venice, California, January 10 and 11, 1914, was disrupted by the Tramp who stood in the way of the cameraman who was filming the event.

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her love in the time of the French revolution.

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable f...

The fictional rags-to-riches story of a dancer, her benefactor a kind-hearted old piano tutor. Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many flms in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the auditorium and the ...

In a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live, there was a love story between an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist.

There is a scene in Paris. A man draws on a blackboard a sketch of a novelist. The living features of his sketch are completely devoid of whiskers. One can't see the change until someone else is in th...

A shopgirl is in love with her boss.

The film focused too much on the workings of an inscrutable universe. An old astronomer teaches a class of young men about astronomy. Young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes when a mech...

The Magic Flame was based on the play Konig Harlekin. George Barnes was nominated for an award. The film promoted itself as a circus. There is an incomplete copy of reels 3, 7, and 8 in the Museum of ...

A man is in the country after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a lot of money, he convinces her to marry him.

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Ch...