Silent Film Movies

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Five friends, all affected in some way by a mercury poisoning incident are partying when a freak accident put them on a collision course with an...

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

This partially-extant silent film focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the early twentieth century. Wang Guisheng (played by Wang...

A pastoral outing as Oswald and his friends take in the delights on a swimming hole.

When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney...

Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at...

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A young, upstanding lumberjack heads to college, where he quickly becomes introduced to a world of hazing, pranks, and class camaraderie. Will his...

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and...

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds herself in a Keystone movie, where there's...