The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c

Queen of the Night Clubs

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, a

Prinz Kuckuck

The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire'

Everybody's Acting

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s

Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl

The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi

The Deluded Wife

When wealthy Edith Carroll, naïve and flighty, is introduced to the social but roguish Hubert Ransto

Florence Nightingale

The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during t

The Kid

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan

People on Sunday

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit

Metropolis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind

The Cave Girl

Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes

Take a Chance

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ru

The Mountain Bandit

The Sealed Room

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can s

You Never Know Women

On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling gird