Silent Film Movies

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of...

After eating a cheesecake given to him by a kind-hearted lady, a hobo goes to sleep and has a bizarre dream in which insects are putting on a...

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular...

The movie depicts the harsh realities of coal mining workers in a Moravian city (Ostrava).

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

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...

A collaboration between Man Ray and Henri Chomette,, half-brother of the filmmaker René Clair.

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

In the near future, an isolated man is tortured by his beloved memories.

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief...

After eating a rarebit at a party, a woman has a strange dream in which her husband converts their home into a flying machine to escape having to pay...

A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her...

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

In 1924 California’s Tribune-American newspaper ran a competition for its readers to write in with their most unusual dreams and the winning...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.