Silent Film Movies

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...

Farm girl Olga Ström is seduced by the Hans Brandt, who soon abandons her, even though she carries their child.

John Logan leaves bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. His parents and his sweetheart become miserable and beleaguered in his...

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also...

A loyal German Shepherd dog follows his master to the French front in World War One.

Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.

A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she...

Using a wide-brimmed hat, Félicien Trewey caricatures several personalities and different types of characters: Bruant, Edward III of England,...

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

In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country...

Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must...

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for...

When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

German silent film

Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to...