The First Time I Saw Francis Taylor He Was in Slow Motion

Modern Times

February 1936 •English

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Underground

July 1928 •English

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...

At The Beauty's Altar

September 1917 •Russian

Lyman H. Howe's Famous Ride on a Runaway Train

May 1921 •English

A runaway train speeds down the track.

Miss Mend

October 1926 •Russian

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One

September 2001 •English

A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and produced by their own Comique Film Company: THE BELL BOY (1918), THE BUTCHER BOY (1917), OUT WEST (1918), MOONSHINE (1918), and THE HAYSEED (1919). Volume One of a two-volume DVD series from Kino Video. Musical score by the Alloy Orchestra.

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two

September 2001 •English

A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and produced by their own Comique Film Company: BACK STAGE (1919), GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! (1918), CONEY ISLAND (1918), THE ROUGH HOUSE (1918), and THE GARAGE (1920). Volume Two of a two-volume DVD series from Kino Video. Musical score by the Alloy Orchestra.

Il controllore dei vagoni letto

November 1922 •Italian

Silent film.

Why Babies Leave Home

January 1928 •English

After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home. He saves their home and, while chasing a runaway pancake, saves a kidnapped girl as well.

I'll Show You the Town

June 1925 •English

British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.

Silent Movie

June 1976 •English

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

Departure of Love

June 2010 •

‘Departure of Love’ was inspired by the silent film comedy of Buster Keaton and the 1920s.

Andy's Stump Speech

November 1924 •English

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

A Million Bid

May 1927 •English

To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."

What a Change of Clothes Did

January 1913 •English

Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip.

The Motor Boat Demon

January 1927 •English

There is a boat race going on.

The Clown Barber

August 1898 •English

A clown cuts off a customer's head and replaces it.

How Animated Cartoons Are Made

September 1919 •English

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

That Ice Ticket

November 1921 •English

An important example of amateur filmmaking during this era, That Ice Ticket was made by Angela Murray Gibson who ran Gibson Studios in the small community of Casselton, North Dakota. Gibson cast community members in her productions, taking on multiple roles herself, writing, directing and acting in the films, operating the camera during filming, then processing the footage and editing the finished picture together. Here she plays a young woman managing multiple male suitors with the "help" of her mischievous kid brother.

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

December 2011 •German

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.