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Silent Movies ("a thru z" titles)
Full-length silent movie stock footage titles from our public domain films and archive film stock footage library celebrate the beginning of visual story-telling in cinematography with the brilliant rescue on the woman tied to the train tracks to the daring adventures of Douglas Fairbanks.
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BELOVED ROGUE, THE
JOHN BARRYMORE, CONRAD VEIDT
A swashbuckling story of a French poet-patriot emeshed in a battle of wits with king of France for the life of his beloved.
(public domain films) 1927 99 min BW (SILENT)
BIRTH OF A NATION
LILLIAN GISH, MAE MARSH, HENRY B. WALTHALL
Two familes living through the political and social turmoil of the civil war, Lincoln's assassination and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
(public domain films) 1915 90 min BW (SILENT)
BLOOD AND SAND
RUDOLPH VALENTINO, ROSA ROSANOVA, LEO WHITE
Impoverished man pursues a career as a bullfighter and rapidly gains national prominence which he jepordizes with an affair.
(public domain films) 1922 61 min BW (SILENT)
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
WERNER KRAUSS, CONRAD VEIDT, FRIEDRICH FEHER
Erie film of German expressionism tells the strange tale of a sleepwalker under the spell the mysterious and evil Dr. Caligari.
(public domain films) 1921 67 min BW (SILENT)
CAT AND THE CANARY, THE
LAURA LA PLANTE, CREIGHTON HALE
Relatives at a reading of their uncle's will are forced to stay a night in a creepy old mansion riddled with secret passages and more.
(public domain films) 1927 99 min BW (SILENT)
CIVILIZATION
HOWARD C. HICKMAN, ENID MARKEY
A dead navy officer returns via spiritual intervention to show a war-hungry King the horrors the war that he had started.
(public domain films) 1916 78 min BW (SILENT)
COLLEGE
BUSTER KEATON, ANNE CORNWALL
Comedy abounds, when a klutzy high-school brain vows to win the heart of the campus beauty by becoming a college athlete.
(public domain films) 1927 85 min BW (SILENT)
DESTINY
LIL DAGOVER, WALTER JANSSEN
Incarnation of Death adbucts woman's fiance which forces her to accept an insidious challenge by Death in order to bring him back.
(public domain films) 1920 102 min BW (SILENT)
EASY VIRTUE
ISABEL JEANS, FRANKLIN DYALL
Her reputation, ruined in a nasty divorce, woman flees to France under a new identity. Remarrying, new family discovers her past.
(public domain films) 1927 60 min BW (SILENT)
EXTRA GIRL, THE
MABEL NORMAND, RALPH GRAVES
Small-town girl is invited to Hollywood when her name is accidently attached to the glamour shot of another woman.
(public domain films) 1923 68 min BW (SILENT)
FARMERS WIFE, THE
JAMESON THOMAS, LILLIAN HALL-DAVIS
Rebuffed by a list of ill-considered candidates for his affection, lonely widower realizes that love has been at his side all along.
(public domain films) 1928 97 min BW (SILENT)
FOOLISH WIVES
RUDOLPH CHRISTIANS, MISS DuPONT, MAUDE GEORGE
After WWI, Russian emigre leases a villa near Monte Carlo and poses as a count and begins to ingratiate himself into society.
(public domain films) 1922 117 min BW (SILENT)
GARDEN OF EDEN
CORINNE GRIFFITH, LOUISE DRESSLER
Romantic adventures begin for a beautiful Viennese singer when she travels with her guardian to Monte Carlo.
(public domain films) 1928 79 min BW (SILENT)
GENERAL, THE
MARION MACK, CHARLES SMITH, BUSTER KEATON
Train engineer during the Civil War has his beloved train and girl kidnapped, causing one of the all-time great chases to begin.
(public domain films) 1927 107 min BW (SILENT)
GIRL'S FOLLY, A
DORIS KENYON, ROBERT WARWICK
A semi-mocumentary of the motion picture business of the mid-1910's and the relationship between an actor and a young starlet.
(public domain films) 1917 30 min BW (SILENT)
GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE
A.C. ABADIE, GILBERT M. 'BRONCHO BILLY' ANDERSON
Four bandits attempt a daring train robbery and causes the Sheriff to gather his men to go out bandit hunting.
(public domain films) 1903 12 min BW (SILENT)
HEARTS OF THE WORLD
D.W. GRIFFITH, SIR EDWARD GREY, RENE VIVIANI
Youngsters join the resistance, when their lives are shattered and their peaceful village is occupied by the invading German Army.
(public domain films) 1918 115 min BW (SILENT)
INTOLERANCE
SPOTTISWOODE AITKEN, MARY ALDEN, FRANK BENNETT
The concept of "intolerance" is examined in four historical eras - ancient Babylon, Judea, Paris and modern (at the time) America.
(public domain films) 1916 72 min BW (SILENT)
JOYLESS STREET
GRETA GARBO, ASTA NIELSEN, ROBERT GARRISON
In Vienna, the consequences of the depression after WWI causes one woman to be murdered and another forced into prostitution.
(public domain films) 1925 61 min BW (SILENT)
LADY WINDEMERES FAN
RONALD COLEMAN, MAY McAVOY, BERT LYTELL
A beautiful and well-respected woman discovers her husband is spending a great deal of time in the company of an older woman.
(public domain films) 1925 89 min BW (SILENT)
LAST OF THE MOHICANS
WALLACE BEERY, BARBARA BEDFORD, ALAN ROSCOE
Two beautiful young women attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War.
(public domain films) 1920 74 min BW (SILENT)
LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY
MARY PICKFORD, WILLIAM HAINES, WALTER JAMES
Slum girl faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves is accused of shooting her father and her brother seeks revenge.
(public domain films) 1925 93 min BW (SILENT)
LODGER, THE
MARIE AULT, ARTHUR CHESNEY
A serial killer is running loose in London with a fatal attraction to young blond women.
(public domain films) 1927 80 min BW (SILENT)
MARRIAGE CIRCLE, THE
FLORENCE VIDOR, MONTE BLUE, ADOLPH MENJOU
Two couples become entangled in a web of infidelity and miscommunication with comedic results.
(public domain films) 1923 105 min BW (SILENT)
OLIVER TWIST
JAMES A. MARCUS, AGGIE HERRING, JACKIE COOGAN
An orphan boy in 1830's London endures abuse while forced to work in a sweatshop, he then falls into company of young thieves.
(public domain films) 1922 98 min BW (SILENT)
ORPHANS OF THE STORM
LILLIAN GISH, DOROTHY GISH, JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT
Two sisters, one blind, find themselves in the middle of the French Revolution and at the mercy of each of the warring factions.
(public domain films) 1921 115 min BW (SILENT)
PECK'S BAD BOY
JACKIE COOGAN, WHEELER OAKMAN, DORIS MAY
Young boy idolizes father and desperately wants his approval, but when a trouble-making cousing moves in, boy is the one blamed.
(public domain films) 1921 64 min BW (SILENT)
QUEEN KELLY
GLORIA SWANSON, WALTER BYRON, SEENA OWEN
A young convent girl falls for dashing prince but a series of pivotal events causes her life to change course for the worse.
(public domain films) 1929 99 min BW (SILENT)
REGENERATION
JOHN MCCANN, JAMES A. MARCUS, MAGGIE WESTON
Young man, orphaned at ten with a rough childhood, now the leader of a street gand, finds love and a chance at happiness.
(public domain films) 1915 72 min BW (SILENT)
STRONG MAN, THE
HARRY LANGDON, GERTRUDE ASTOR, BROOKS BENEDICT
Meek Belgian soldier during World War I becomes a penpal with an American woman and after the war travels to U.S. to find her.
(public domain films) 1926 76 min BW (SILENT)
SUDS
MARY PICKFORD, ALBERT AUSTIN, HAROLD GOODWIN
A London laundry girl misses out on true love when she focuses all her attention on capturing the love of an upperclass gentleman.
(public domain films) 1920 66 min BW (SILENT)
TOL'ABLE DAVID
RICHARD BARTHELMESS, GLADYS HULETTE
Easy going mountain boy is forced, by circumstance to become the community mailman and runs afoul of some nasty customers.
(public domain films) 1921 78 min BW (SILENT)
WAY DOWN EAST
LILLIAN GISH, RICHARD BARTHELMESS, LOWELL SHERMAN
Poor innocent country girl is tricked into fake marriage to a callous rich man and after a series of ruinous events gets her revenge.
(public domain films) 1920 110 BW (SILENT)
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