Silent Film Movies

Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion...

Japanese silent film.

Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal...

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who...

The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid...

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora...

An experimental silent film made with a team of three. Humanity is being wiped out and the last people left are friends May and Pearl. The main...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing...

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

“This shows the Fire Department leaving headquarters for an early morning fire. The scene is remarkable for its natural effect. The opening of...

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...