Silent Movies

Following a young man as he navigates his way through an essay, slowly finding that the subject matter is becoming a part of his life that he...

Anna Q. Nilsson plays a shy telegrapher who foils a gang of train robbers in this vintage short subject directed by J.P. McGowan.

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street...

Record of the 1937 German Expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Karl Wien. This was the third German expedition to the mountain, and the team followed...

Siren is a stone-cold bookie with a score to settle and a temper hotter than a .45 in July. When a slippery debtor tries to skip town with her money,...

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...

When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a...

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.

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....

A boy sits alone in his room, but he hears a noise. What is this noise, who is making it?

A silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

William J. Oliver filmed the ascent of Mount Tupper in the Glacier National Park by the famous Swiss mountain guide Edward Feuz accompanied by his...

An outdoor gathering.

On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the...

A film record of a Soviet expedition to Pamir, not to be confused with Krysha Mira, a different 1928 expedition film also about Pamir, directed by...

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

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Travelogue of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Sailing distance to Glacier National Park, Montana. Vimy Mountain overlooks National Parks on...

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...