Silent Film Movies

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the...

In a smudgy hotel, guests and staff have a run in with fate.

Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again...

A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.

In this early mother-in-law comedy, a bride’s mother insists on managing the private lives of the newly married couple—to the point of...

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie...

On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian...

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope,...

Left with the care of his little grandchild through the death of his daughter, old Mr. Blinn tries in every way to give her the cure and attention...

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB "Two portrait sketches and two nondescript."

A sad story about how a working-class man tries, and succeeds, to become a writer, but finds difficulty in fitting into that world.

Professor Bonehead gets shipwrecked, strands on a tropical island and meets cannibals.

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

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...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.