Silent Movies

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film....

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old...

Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a girl who once befriended him. The girl, a student in...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

A man experiences what seems to be a simple power outage until he looks outside to find out something much more sinister may be happening.

This biographical portrait of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), feature-length and lavishly produced, was released in conjunction with the...

An Irish Romeo and Juliet set in 18th Century during the Penal Laws. Ends with the marriage of a Catholic aristocrat and the daughter of Protestant...

A gifted pie baker suffers from muscle spasms and tends to throw pies in everyone's face by accident.

An Italian produced, short, silent, observational documentary directed by Raffaele Andreassi.

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls....

Released on March 9th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on January 12th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A man contacts the dead.

During an ascent of Canigou, a traveler falls into a precipice, his body rolling to the bottom of the abyss on the glistening snow of the glacier....

As a grieving widow clings to the memory of her husband, a quiet friend watches from a distance-holding in his hands the sight of the fact that the...

Record of the 1936 British Mount Everest Expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge. Although the North Col was reached, a combination of high winds, storms...

Every day, a father works to accumulate the money needed to buy go-kart tires for his daughter and himself. At the racetrack or at home, nothing...

After using a mysterious hole to dispose of all his trash, a man faces unexpected consequences.

As an astronaut mourns the death of her canine companions, a pet shop employee sees to help her fill the fluffy void. Unsuccessful, they both despair...