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1,103 films in this collection
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1902 · Science fiction · Fantasy
Begin with a brief visual fantasy that turns a scientific expedition into a succession of theatrical transformations.
12 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
1921 · Comedy · Drama
Follow the everyday routines that bind a makeshift family before an attempt to separate them changes the tone.
69 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
1926 · Comedy
Watch how a railway pursuit grows from practical problems: track, machinery and timing drive the physical comedy.
87 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Collection no. #171166 minD. W. Griffith
166 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Four stories unfold across ancient Babylon, biblical Judea, sixteenth-century France and modern America. Their characters face persecution, conflict…
Collection no. #206100 minWallace Worsley
100 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
In fifteenth-century Paris, the bell-ringer Quasimodo becomes involved in a plot against the dancer Esmeralda. Her kindness unsettles the loyalties…
Collection no. #53375 minGeorge Melford
75 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
An independent British traveller plans a desert journey after refusing a conventional marriage. A powerful sheik becomes fascinated by her and…
Collection no. #548149 minJohn Ford
149 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A surveyor's dream of a transcontinental railway survives his murder through the son who witnesses it. Years later, the young man joins the enormous…
Collection no. #65186 minCharles Chaplin
86 min · Subtitles: English
A solitary prospector arrives in the Klondike expecting a fortune and finds hunger, snow and unpredictable companions instead. Shelter in a remote…
Collection no. #65278 minReginald Barker
78 min · Subtitles: English
Beppo leaves his life as a Venetian gondolier to build a future in New York and bring his sweetheart across the Atlantic. Work as a shoeshiner offers…
Collection no. #65320 minCharles Chaplin
20 min · Subtitles: English
During an uncomfortable Atlantic crossing, a penniless traveler befriends a woman facing the same uncertain arrival. Their paths separate, then meet…
Collection no. #65467 minGeorge Chesebro
67 min · Subtitles: English
Violence between rival logging companies leaves foreman Dick Bannister close to death. After an extraordinary transfusion involving a wolf,…
Collection no. #65526 minCharles Chaplin
26 min · Subtitles: English
Inspired by a mission worker, a wandering man decides to reform and takes a job with the police. His first assignment leads to a street ruled by a…
Collection no. #65618 minBuster Keaton
18 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Determined to impress the woman he loves, a young man tries to prove that he can succeed in business. A wallet, a furniture deal and a troublesome…
Collection no. #65724 minBuster Keaton
24 min · Subtitles: English
A newly married couple receives a house packed in numbered crates and sets out to assemble their new home. A jealous rival alters the numbers,…
Collection no. #65823 minBuster Keaton
23 min · Subtitles: English
A father finishes building a family boat and discovers that getting it out of the house is already a dangerous undertaking. Launching the vessel…
Collection no. #65920 minBuster Keaton
20 min · Subtitles: English
A drifter fakes his way into a shooting-gallery job and acquires a reputation as an expert marksman. The deception attracts both a gang planning a…
Collection no. #66022 minBuster Keaton
22 min · Subtitles: English
A variety theater seems to employ the same remarkably familiar man in every possible position, from orchestra to audience. The dream gives way to…
Collection no. #661115 minGrigori Aleksandrov
115 min · Subtitles: English
Petrograd moves from the overthrow of the monarchy to a new struggle over power. Crowds, soldiers, politicians and revolutionary organizers fill the…
Collection no. #66270 minSergei Eisenstein
70 min · Subtitles: English
Rotten food and brutal discipline push the sailors of a Russian battleship toward mutiny. Their revolt reaches the people of Odessa, where public…
Collection no. #66375 minRobert Wiene
75 min · Subtitles: English
A travelling showman brings a sleepwalker to a town fair and invites the public to hear his predictions. After one visitor receives a terrifying…
Collection no. #66466 minDziga Vertov
66 min · Subtitles: English
A cameraman follows a city's changing rhythms from the quiet of early morning to work, travel and recreation. Factories, streets and leisure spaces…