Park Your Car

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

Rural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding. From a comedy by Alexis Kivi.

Leontines Ehemänner

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

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.

The Moon Beauty

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

Prince Sami comes from Nigeria and is an uncivilized "nature boy." He is sent to the highly civilized court of Duchess Maria of Arragon, where he initially causes chaos. In the end, however, he becomes the duchess's husband.

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.