Silent Movies

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

1917 Favraux, a corrupt banker, is blackmailed by the mysterious Judex, who forces him to confront the consequences of his crimes; the stage is set...

The story resolves with forgiveness, reunions, and the engagement of Jacques and Jacqueline, while Diana meets a tragic end.

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

"While The Salvation Army on the Job is listed in film databases without a full plot summary, it is closely associated with the 1919 short comedy A...

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a...

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

Four people experience loneliness in different parts of a town.

As a grieving widow clings to the memory of her husband, a quiet friend watches from a distance-holding in his hands the sight of the fact that the...

A hungry student tries to steal food from a stranger.

Judex is taken aboard Diana’s ship, escapes with outside help, and the tables turn against his enemies.

A very short episode in which Jacqueline learns the truth about Vallières, Judex, and Jacques de Trémeuse being the same man.

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the...

Judex uses his dogs to track Jacqueline, rescues her from a villa, and deeper hints emerge that he is falling in love with her.

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

Documentary without audio produced by deaf people. Music is depicted visually with the complete absence of musical instruments or voices. Directed by...

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...

A young woman re-lives her past relationship through a series of silhouettes in the night's sky.

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....