Topic: Silent Film

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Virginia Cherrill · Florence Lee · Harry Myers

Plot The Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). She believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Henry Bergman · Chester Conklin

Plot Chaplin is a factory worker in this hectic age - a minor cog in the grinding wheels of industry. His job -mechanically tightening bolts on a moving belt. The monotony...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Georgia Hale · Tom Murray

Plot The Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune in the Alaskan wilderness. There, he meets Black Larson (Tom Murray) and large but gentler Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain),...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing

Plot A farmer (George O' Brien) lives happily with his wife (Janet Gaynor) until he meets an attractive woman from the city (Margaret Livingstone). The farmer falls in love with this...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Jackie Coogan · Edna Purviance · Carl Miller

Plot 'The Kid' is the story of a child abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance). When The Little Tramp finds him, he tries unsuccessfully to find a...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Maria Falconetti · Eugene Silvain · Maurice Schutz · Michel Simon

Plot Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of...

Direction Buster Keaton · Clyde Bruckman

Cast Buster Keaton · Marion Mack · Glen Cavender · Jim Farley

Plot Johnny Gray is the engineer for the Western and Atlantic Flyer, and his engine is named "The General." There are two loves in Johnny's life, "The General" and Annabelle Lee....

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Gibson Gowland · ZaSu Pitts · Jean Hersholt · Chester Conklin

Plot Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her...

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Kathryn McGuire · Joe Keaton · Ward Crane

Plot A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Max Hiller · Emilie Kurz

Plot It tells the story of an elderly hotel doorman whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant. He is embarrassed by his new position so he tries to...

Direction King Vidor

Cast James Murray · Eleanor Boardman · Bert Roach · Estelle Clark

Plot Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But dreams soon fade with the death of his father when John is but...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gustav Fröhlich · Brigitte Helm · Alfred Abel · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Plot In Metropolis, society is divided in two classes: the rich, who have all the power and all kinds of luxuries and the workers, doomed to work and confined to live...

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lillian Gish · Lars Hanson · Montagu Love · Dorothy Cumming

Plot Letty, a naive, poor young woman, travels to the wind-blown Texas prairie and lives in a dust-bowl town on her cousin's ranch. She takes care of the children, but is...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Gösta Ekman · Camilla Horn · William Dieterle

Plot Angels try to stop the Devil as he races across the Earth. The Devil insists that the Earth is his and strikes a bet with the angels as to whether...

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Plot Caligari appears in the town with his marvel Cesare the Somnambulist, a man who has been asleep for 23 years and is now under Caligari’s hypnotic control. Caligari claims that...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Plot An extraordinary montage of urban Russian life in 1929, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was...

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Ruth Dwyer · T. Roy Barnes · Snitz Edwards

Plot When Jimmie Shannon's uncle leaves him seven million dollars in his will, it seems as though his fortune is well and truly made... until he reads the small print: in...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov

Plot The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Paul Richter · Margarete Schön · Hanna Ralph · Theodor Loos

Plot It is based on the German epic from the 13th century. We follow Siegfried through the making of the magic sword, his slaying of the dragon, his bath in the...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Merna Kennedy · Betty Morrisey · Harry Crocker

Plot Charlie's Tramp character finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top, he is...