Silent Film Movies

The story is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876. While making their way through the Badlands, a religious cult is terrorized by a...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

Ninon, a veteran stage artist, resides in her villa in Provence, surrounded by admirers as veteran or more than her. A film crew arrives at the...

A portrait of a man sleeping under the open sky

The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and...

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

After wandering the world for fifteen years, Hiram Perkins returns home to find his wife running a small town newspaper to support their two...

Produced by small-scale firm Peerless, this silent melodrama told the ancient story of the girl whose refusal to "put out" loses her a chance for...

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper...

Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

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...

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to...

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the...

Ko-Ko the Clown is brought to life with a needle and thread.

German silent film

American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and...

Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the...

A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.