A rising star who rose from bit player to writer, director, and star of comedies for Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle recruited up-and-coming vaudeville comic Buster Keaton for a series of films from 1917 through 1919.

City Lights
1931 - Image Entertainment
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A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. ...More

The Gold Rush
1925 - Image Entertainment
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Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece centers on the hardships of life on the Alaskan frontier. The Little Tramp plays a pathetic, lonely prospector who journeys to the Klondike hoping to discover gold and make his fortune. ...More

Modern Times
1936 - Warner Home Video
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In Chaplin's classic comedy of the Machine Age, a bolt tightener fails at everything but falling in love. ...More

The General
1926 - Image Entertainment
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Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle, Johnnie Gray sets out to single-handedly win the war with his cherished locomotive. When Northern spies steal his train, the intrepid Confederate takes on the entire Union army to get it back. ...More

Our Hospitality
1923 - Kino Video
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The art of Buster Keaton is on spectacular display in two of his finest films. The wonderful film "Our Hospitality" (1923, 75 min.) is in many ways a companion piece to Keaton's 1926 masterpiece "The General." It stars Buster as a New York man who returns to his southern homeland only to find himself embroiled in a longstanding feud between his family and that of the woman he loves. ...More

A college wimp tries to please his burly riverboat-captain father . Silent. …More

Harry Langdon: The Forgotten Clown
1926 - Kino Video
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Motion pictures originally produced between 1926 and 1927. Strong Man: After a tour of duty in WWI, a witless young Belgian comes to America and seeks out his dedicated pen pal, but his quest for Mary Brown leads him from mishap to comic disaster.

The Harold Lloyd Collection: Slapstick Symposium
2004 - Keno Video
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Lloyd sold more tickets than Chaplin and Keaton - and any other silent comedian in the 1920s. Includes 7 short films and 1 feature film covering the period between 1919-1922.

Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection
2005/11 - New Line Cinema Corporation
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Having appeared in more than 200 films and widely considered to be one of cinema's most respected comic geniuses, Harold Lloyd was one of Hollywood’s 1st true movie stars.

Before movies talked, they clacked with swords, gonged with wedding bells and pulsed with perfectly matched orchestral accompaniment. The process that made it happen was Vitaphone, a sound-on-disk system that made its feature-film debut in this lavish 1926 classic. Starring in this swashbuckling tale of the world's most famed lover is the greatest actor of his day: John Barrymore

It
1927- Image Entertainment
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A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as it. Silent. ...More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 - Image Entertainment
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Grotesque bell ringer Quasimodo rescues Gypsy Esmeralda from a mob in medieval Paris. Silent. ...More

The Phantom of the Opera
1925 - Image Entertainment
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A mad, masked composer lures a Paris singer down to his realm. Silent, with some color; reissued 1930 with some sound. ...More

The Black Pirate
1926 - Kino Video
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A noble pirate walks the plank, rescues a princess and rides down a sail on his knife. Silent. ...More

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeer

Robin Hood
1922 - Kino Video
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Robin and his merry men roam Sherwood Forest, robbing from the rich. Silent. ...More

The Thief of Bagdad
1924 - Kino Video
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This Arabian Nights fantasy-adventure was one of the great productions of the 1920s and remains hugely entertaining today. Douglas Fairbanks stars as carefree Ahmed the Thief. What he wants, he takes -- until he becomes smitten with a beautiful princess. ...More

The Garbo Silents Collection
2005/09 - Warner Home Video
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Broken Blossoms
1919 - Kino Video
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A sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England and meets a 15 year old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable existence. Scarred by the torment & neglect of her father, she collapses in the shop of the lonely yellow man. As he nurses her back to health, an unspoken romance blossoms.

Intolerance
1916 - Kino Video
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A woman rocking a cradle links four tales of historical sin. Silent. Directed by D.W. Griffith. ...More

Orphans of the Storm
1921 - Kino Video
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Two sisters are lost in the French Revolution, with a hold-the-guillotine finale. Silent. Directed by D.W. Griffith. ...More

Way Down East
1920 - Image Entertainment
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A poignant melodrama about a poor country girl who is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a raging blizzard, pursued by the young man who secretly loves her.

Daddy Long Legs
1955 - Milestone Film and Video
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The oldest and cutest of a group of rebellious orphans, July Abbott is provided with funds for her education and well-being by a mysterious benefactor whom she christens "Daddy-long-legs."

Sparrows
1926 - Image Entertainment
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Hidden deep in the Southern swamps, the Grimes family operates a "baby farm" where unwanted or "lost" children are cruelly underfed and overworked. Mama Mollie, the oldest and protector of the other kids, escapes with her little "sparrows" through the alligator-infested swamps. ...More

Stella Maris
1918 - Image Entertainment
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Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world.

Rudolph Valentino stars as a matador who falls into the clutches of a beautiful, insincere society woman. …More

As one of the most iconic personalities of the silent film era, Rudolph Valentino achieved an unprecedented level of fame, due in part to his exotic good looks and a magnetic personality that leapt from the screen.

The Sheik
1921 - Image Entertainment
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1921. Lady Diana Mayo is carried into the desert by an Arab chieftan, who takes one look at her and wants her, right then and there.

A London mob blames an innocent man for Tuesday night killings. Silent. …More

A Frenchman puts off his wedding to look for a lady's hat. Silent. Directed by Rene Clair.

J'Accuse
1919 - Lobster Films
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J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies."

The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 - Image Entertainment
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Home Vision Cinema and The Criterion Collection are proud to present the home video premiere of Carl Dreyer's digitally-remastered cinematic triumph. ...More

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 - Kino Video
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A hypnotist in black exhibits a cabinet, which contains a pale man in black in a trance. Silent. ...More

Dr. Mabuse--criminal genius, psychologist, hypnotist, counterfeiter, card shark, master of disguise, thief of state secrets and ruler of a sinister empire founded on selfishness, chicanery and murder--gained his first screen incarnation in this monumental film by Fritz Lang, one of cinema's greatest directors. …More

Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.

A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious count, who is believed to have murdered his brother. The uninvited guest sets in motion an elaborate plot to resurrect the ghosts of the past and bring secrets of his brother's death to light.

The Last Laugh
1924 - Kino Video
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The proud doorman of a grand hotel is demoted to washroom attendant. Silent. Directed by F.W. Murnau. ...More

Metropolis
1927 - Kino on Video
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Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis has now been brought back in its full version with magnificent original score. Metropolis takes place in 2026 where the populace is divided between the workers underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. ...More

Nosferatu
1922 - Pro-Active Entertmnt
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A real estate agent discovers ugly Count Orlock's unearthly secret. Silent. Directed by F.W. Murnau. ...More

Pandora's Box
1929 - Criterion
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A visually striking melodrama, G.W. Pabst's silent classic stars Louise Brooks in a mesmerizing performance as Lulu, a woman whose uninhibited sexuality leads to her downfall. After her wealthy lover, Dr. Schon, marries her, Lulu inadvertently shoots him during a struggle with a gun. ...More

Warning Shadows
1923 - Kino Video
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Expressionist film in which a count is jealous of the attentions his wife pays to "the lover" and various other suitors. The situation comes to a head when a showman/mesmerist puts on a "shadow play" for them all, in which their emotion and passions are mirrored.

Inspired by the gambling episode in the ancient Hindu epic the Mahabharata, this rare classic of silent cinema tells of two kings who share a passion for reckless gambling, and for the same woman. .

Battleship Potemkin
1925 - Kino Video
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Cossacks massacre supporters of a 1905 Russian mutiny on the steps of Odessa harbor. Silent. ...More

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.

Moses leads an exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, complete with parting of the Red Sea. …More

Contains new digital transfers of the complete collection of the pioneering animator's existing films plus the documentary Remembering Winsor McCay by film historian John Canemaker as well as commentary by John Canemaker and a stills gallery from the Canemaker Collection.