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...

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face...

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. I...

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret...

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased...

George Walters is a youth who is dominated by Bleary, a heartless bully, who forces him to pose as t...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra...

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and i...

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Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past I...

A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her l...

A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is try...

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of th...

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...

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 ...