The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her character more resourceful and less helpless than the classic 'damsel' stereotype. Nine episodes (from a condensed 1916 re-release) survive to this day.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and praye...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. ...

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

In China, a man is arrested and tortured for a crime committed years before by his twin brother.

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking ...

When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed wil...

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

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs i...

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth....