Topic: Silent Film

Direction Franklin B. Coates

Cast Jesse James Jr. · Diana Reed · Jack Neil · Marguerite Hungerford

Synopsis Depicts Jesse James’ return home to Missouri after the Civil War hoping to live a life of peace, but is falsely accused of robbing a bank. He is forced to take up a life of crime by being branded an...

Direction G.W. Bitzer

Synopsis Based loosely on the nursery rhyme: A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the crowd is watching one of the acts, Tom steals a pig and runs off. He tries to hide,...

Direction Miguel Ballesteros Pérez

Cast Miguel Ballesteros Pérez · Amparito Baquero · J. Borja Hernández · Pilar Díaz

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Nils Ahrén · Hilda Borgström · Greta Almroth · John Ekman

Synopsis Helder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.

Direction Igino Bonfioli · Cyprien Segur

Cast Ari de Castro Viana · Osiris Colombo · Lucinda Barreto · Iracema Aleixo

Direction Joris Ivens

Synopsis 100 years ago, large parts of North Holland were hit by a heavy flood, there were deaths in Edam, Marken and Volendam. The ‘Waterlandsche Vloed’ was the direct reason for the construction of the Afsluitdijk, where the turbulent Zuiderzee was...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Marcel Perez · Nilde Baracchi

Synopsis Only the second reel of this 1918 Jester comedy is known to survive. Twede-Dan is a private eye who has decided that Nilda Baracchi is a German spy.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Andrée Brabant · Jean Dehelly · Gustave Libeau · Dinah Valence

Synopsis The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris to that of her compatriots.

Direction Marvin Breckinridge

Cast Mary Breckinridge

Synopsis A documentary which reenacts the lives and events of the midwives and nurses who setup and ran a clinic to help the people living in the Kentucky Appalachian Mountains.

Direction Scott Hammen

Synopsis Sequences taken from a filmed diary whose title refers to the following meanings of the English words "log" and "abstract" which seem to describe the film. "Log Abstract" is made up of themes that come back periodically. Thus the banks...

Direction Burton L. King

Cast Harry Houdini · Arthur Maude · Albert Tavernier · Erwin Connelly

Synopsis The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years, is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a young woman, Felice, is his fiancée from a century before. Hillary is interned in...

Direction Josef Stein

Cast László Bakó · Dezsõ Bánóczi · Viktor Costa · Ilona Dömötör

Synopsis The cooper’s daughter, Zsuzsi, is being wooed by Peter. Her father doesn’t want to hear a word of it, as Peter drinks heavily. Before God, Peter vows never to drink again, and thus wins the hand of Zsuzsi. Peter becomes...

Direction Tom Mix

Cast Tom Mix · C.W. Bachman · Goldie Colwell

Synopsis Tom and Dick are good friends, but they are both in love with the same young woman, Vera. Vera herself cannot decide which of the two suitors she prefers. Realizing that Vera cannot make up her mind, the two young...

Direction Charles Vanel

Cast Charles Vanel · Sandra Milovanoff

Direction Étienne-Jules Marey · Charles Comte

Synopsis Appointed rapporteur of the Commission of Hygiene and Physiology, Étienne-Jules Marey, assisted by Charles Comte, immortalized the movements of the athletes of the second Olympiad of the modern era, organized in Paris as part of the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jane Novak · Dorothy Revier · Robert Edeson · Gaston Glass

Direction Arthur Berthelet

Cast Mary McAllister · William Clifford · Carolyn Irwin · Granville Bates

Synopsis Abandoned by her stepfather, the orphaned Mona Fairfax, nicknamed Young Mother Hubbard by her neighbors, is forced to care for herself and her three siblings on the family farm. When Daniel Banning, the landlord, shows up demanding back rent, Mona...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Buddy Roosevelt · Nita Cavalier · Lafe McKee · Slim Whitaker

Direction Maurits Binger · Hans Nesna

Cast Annie Bos · Adelqui Migliar · Jan van Dommelen · Paula de Waart

Synopsis Tells the love tragedy of the young and insecure detective Joz, who, on the verge of getting married to Maryam, is assigned the high profile case of a murdered prostitute. His relationship is threatened when, as part of the investigation,...