An epic tale which links the Biblical story with the harrowing incidents of the First World War. A mixed group of people are travelling on t...

Hard bitten old sea dog yarn, that handles the nautical scenes pretty well. The captain ( Hobart Bosworth ) is a bitter old sea dog, who has...

An early example of Buster Keaton 's work, a taste of the greatness to come. Buster and Sybil Seely have just got married. One of their...

A superb looking Shakespeare adaptation, one of the oldest known surviving US feature films. The hump-backed Duke of Gloucester ( Frederick ...

A classic late 1920s silent movie. This film follows the story of Ivan Markov ( John Barrymore ), a soldier in the final days of Tsarist Rus...

Before the highly successful Chester Morris series of Boston Blackie films in the 1940s there were a number of other adaptations of the cha...

Mountain folk engage in an endless series of feuds, but real trouble comes when a couple of government revenue inspectors ( Fatty Arbuckle ...

Charlie Chaplin is a waiter in a restaurant, though as you can imagine much slapstick mayhem ensues. In his lunch break he goes roller skat...

The Alice series were early Walt Disney live action / animation hybrids.  Alice ( Anne Shirley ) and Julius the cat are the owners of an eg...

Buster Keaton is working in a blacksmithing shop with plenty of mayhem of course. Buster ends up in a fight with the actual blacksmith ( Jo...

Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle play a couple of drunken gents in this early Chaplin comedy. The gents get drunk together amid much sla...

A fine little silent comedy. A new Western starring Mack Swain is starting at the local movie theatre and a large crowd is assembling. To t...

Snub Pollard is a dandy who is hanging around a park chasing butterflies in a net. After some flirting (with girls not butterflies) he ends...

A curious comedy short. We are in the year 1950 (though looks remarkably like 1920 still!) and men and women have switched roles. Unfortunat...

A Charlie Chapin comedy short which is a decent satire on high society. Charlie's boss, a tailor ( Eric Campbell ) finds an invitation ...

The first feature-length comedy film and also Keystone's only feature film. It is also the final  Charlie Chaplin film in which he did ...

The film that turned Clara Bow into a superstar and created the concept of the "It girl", but is it any good? What is "It...

An early Charlie Chapin short comedy, the first in which he appears (mostly) alone. A drunk (Chaplin) returns home from some sort of event ...

Another early Walt Disney animation / live action hybrid. After an innovative if perhaps slightly overlong chase between a cat and a rabbit...

Another of Walt Disney 's early Alice animation / live action hybrids. Alice ( Lois Hardwick ) is dancing aboard a ship with a crew of a...