Silent Film Movies

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.

Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the y...

The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife....

This film tells the story of Gonthramm, a young knight who sought in vain for the Holy Grail and, on the way back to join his bride, Galeswithe, is me...

A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated proce...

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

A series of demonstrations that illustrate some of the scientific principles involved in magnetism.

Lizette loves Jean but a 10,000 franc dowry insisted upon by Jean's father is keeping them apart. Paul, Lizette's "black sheep" brother, begs that she...

A parade of supporters of the constructed auxiliary language Esperanto, which is intended to be a universal second language for international communic...

Robinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.

In an unprecedented move for its day in 1915, Biograph Company executives hired actor Bert Williams to star, produce, direct, and write his own films,...

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. F...

A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.

At a military demonstration Red Imps: Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson bring a captured enemy, dangerous Makhno.

George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidn...