D-Silent

Inspired by Kipling's poem, "The Vampire," A Fool There Was catapulted Theda Bara into super-stardom. America was captivated by "The Vamp," a beaut...

The Tramp is broke and on the street, starving for food. The last thing he wants is another mouth to feed, but that's exactly what he gets when he ...

Norma Shearer plays Marjorie Dare, a debutante with a broken heart. Her fiance, Jim Allen, blames Marjorie's family for his father's financial ruin...

A CHILD OF THE PARIS STREETS (1916): Madame Dufrane begs a Parisian judge to have mercy on her son, a member of the street gang 'The Apaches.' The ...

Prominent maritime scientist Professor Aronnax, his daughter and ace harpooner Ned Land are aboard the U.S. Navy gunboat Abraham Lincoln, hunting a...

Alice Grayson's inventor uncle is murdered, and his blueprints for a wireless torpedo are stolen by criminals who plan to sell them to America's en...

William S. Hart (1864-1946) began as a highly acclaimed Shakespearean actor on Broadway who entertained no aspiration for movie acting prior to age...

The nickelodeon was the first indoor space devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures. Previously, films were shown at burlesque theaters and v...

Newly-elected district attorney Robert Travers has vowed to bring down corrupt political boss John Kelly. Among Kelly's many despicable causes is d...

On the great Western Pacific Railroad, Helen, the spunky daughter of a supervisor, begins a romance with John, an engineer with a troubled past. Af...

Trilby O'Farrell poses nude for starving artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris, until she crosses paths with the dark genius, Svengali. Using hypno...

A gang of white slavers is kidnapping young girls right off the boat at Ellis Island and forcing them to become prostitutes. Officer Matt Burke has...

Tom Mix was the undisputed King of the Cowboys during the early silent era of Western films. Born in Pennsylvania in 1880, Tom headed west early on...

Young David Kinemon's rural West Virginia paradise is ruined when a deranged family of ex-cons, the Hatburns, take over the cabin down the road. Wi...

Marie Dressler plays Tillie Tinklepaw, a neglected housewife. One day she decides to head to Coney Island for a day of fun away from her stuffy hub...

Stepping On The Gas (1927, B&W, Silent): Young American inventor Johnny Mack builds the fastest, most efficient car engine ever seen. His comp...

Jefferson Girard and Peter Wingate are old business partners...and the best of friends. Girard's daughter, Betty, and Wingate's son, Larry, plan to...

In the shadow of smouldering Mt. Vesuvius stands a small Italian village, serene in its age and dignity. The beauteous Donna Angela resides there, ...

John Bent is a small-time crook on the skids. While staying at a boarding house, he falls in love with a downtrodden young girl named Daisy and mar...

First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers quickly became a sensation all over the world. The novel tells the tale of young Gas...

Jewish vaudevillian Max Aaronson was so excited by the audience's reaction to him in 1903's epochal The Great Train Robbery (in which he played thr...

An idealistic young minister is driven from the tiny backwoods settlement of Swan Creek by the cowpokes who are the hard drinking godless heathens ...

Enemy agents, led by the sinister Benedict Hisston, plan to destroy the Panama Canal and wreck the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the process. Richard Deca...

Toodles Walden is the top salesman at J.D. Ward Automobiles, but dreams of racing their new high-speed motorcars. Even higher up on his list of wis...