Silent Cinema Movies

"Bialy Slad" featured as the main characters amateur actors, who were by that time well-known Polish skiers, among them Andrzej, Herr Krzeptowski's...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

A boy confesses his love to a girl — and turns to stone forever.

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

A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his...

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power :...

Time is not linear, it is an infinite circle that surrounds us. -Andrei Tarkovsky

A raucous comedy of errors about a singer stuck in a dead-end job who sees his last, best shot at rock stardom threatened by freak accidents, movie...

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent...

The pattern-living Paul Fowler has his routines disrupted by the contact-seeking photographer Jane.

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

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.