Silent Film Movies

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large...

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife...

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being...

A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or...

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first...

An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the...

This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as...

When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.