Silent Film Movies

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic...

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

“This shows the Fire Department leaving headquarters for an early morning fire. The scene is remarkable for its natural effect. The opening of...

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle....

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and...

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.