Silent Movies

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

Jacqueline is taken to an old mill, Moralès is exposed as Kerjean’s son, and Judex continues protecting Jacqueline in secret.

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...

Released on March 16th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A young history student goes to his uncle’s mansion to find out what caused the old man descend into madness.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old...

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

1917 Favraux, a corrupt banker, is blackmailed by the mysterious Judex, who forces him to confront the consequences of his crimes; the stage is set...

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film...

Mutt and Jeff fight with Indians.

In an attempt to reignite their relationship, a couple goes on a vacation to a waterpark where they argue incessantly about even the most menial...

Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a girl who once befriended him. The girl, a student in...

An exercise in no-budget filmmaking made over a two day span.

A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on April 13th, 1919.

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and...