Silent Film Movies

A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

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.

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

The title pretty much tells you all there is to know about this Edison film. It runs a very brief 27-seconds and shows a torpedo hitting its target...

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait...

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose...

A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him.

WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get...

Silent Hank Mann comedy set in a haunted house.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s...

Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by...

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes...