Silent Film Movies

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as...

When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney...

The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling,...

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam...

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with...

A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

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...

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to...

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

Kren frames the image to suggest a proscenium, with a view to the harbor that conveys a literal sense of “tele-vision”. The static...

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

A story about countryside in Romania a little before WW1.

Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

A silent film about a sorrowful man who's searching for a buyer for his goods and acceptance for his existence.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..