This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industri...
This film begins with the invocation of 'almighty god' at a river where several people are gathered....

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...

Silent film about five girls, dealing with the dream of beauty, despair of revolution, broken Gretch...
Jim, a robber, is in love with the chief’s bride Clara, who firmly rejects his many advances. In rev...

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen...

The tragic love story of two passionate teenagers, Emma and Rick. Featuring “Bleachless”, composed a...

Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lo...
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...