Silent Movies

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

A Buddhist priest and a geisha become mutually involved in a forbidden love affair. Lost film.

Released in 1901

Percy Wyn-Harris' filmic record of the 1933 expedition, led by Hugh Ruttledge. It features comprehensive footage of the 1933 Mount Everest...

Released in 1901

A passionate mime practices her daily rituals and performs for people, as well as being reminded of her insecurities.

After being brutally murdered, the spirit of a traumatized mother embarks on a desperate quest to protect the child she left behind, only to discover...

Released in March of 1921. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Based on George Ade's story about a wealthy young man whose life is changed by his love for a gardener's daughter, transforming him into a more...

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Released in 1901

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his...

Released on March 28th, 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.