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.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed b...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The Genera...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly politica...

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

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

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who figh...

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 ...