Silent Film Movies

In an unprecedented move for its day in 1915, Biograph Company executives hired actor Bert Williams to star, produce, direct, and write his own films,...

Léontine cannot resist her desire to sail her new toy boat indoors. She plugs up the drains and turns on the faucets, flooding the house as water rain...

While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat. She tells him he...

A bizarre musical couple falls asleep after an insane performance, and dreams about musical instruments.

The oldest remaining film in Korea sets in the 1920s for enlightenment

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's original footage from his South Pole expedition fro...

A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and shoots a fish down from the sky...

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his p...

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe, Ilfra...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog...

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the...

A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.

A World War I promotional cartoon for war savings stamps.

Written, shot and edited in a span of 24 hours, Cirkuit Breac is a short sci-fi thriller which explores the "Butterfly effect" that is triggered by th...

Arizona range rider Lon Gilchrist helps stagecoach passengers fight off attacking Apaches. After rescuing a baby and binding her bleeding forehead wit...

This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.