The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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

When It Strikes Home

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a so

Birth of Shri Krishna

This film begins with the invocation of 'almighty god' at a river where several people are gathered.

The Social Leper

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. T

This May Be the End

An experimental silent film made with a team of three. Humanity is being wiped out and the last peo

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

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

People on Sunday

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

Castle of Wind and Clouds

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one 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

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a

City Lights

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m

Pandora's Box

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires

Metropolis

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

The Way of the Strong

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Éternel amour

Above the Lake

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.