Films

A Mongolian trapper is exploited by occupying forces and transformed into a political symbol they believe they can control.

A peasant officer’s love for a princess collides with military hierarchy, imprisonment, and the Russian Revolution.

A street photographer buys a motion-picture camera and tries to become a newsreel cameraman while pursuing a woman who works at the studio.

One ambitious office worker discovers how difficult it is to remain an individual inside a modern city.

A coal stoker on one night of shore leave rescues a woman from the water, and their hurried marriage tests whether either can imagine a life beyond the docks.

A widowed farmer makes a list of suitable women to marry, overlooking the person who understands both him and his household best.

A former Russian general, now an impoverished Hollywood extra, is cast by a director who recognises him from the revolution that destroyed his old life.

A poor girl selling matches on a winter street escapes hunger and cold through visions that grow increasingly elaborate.

A performer whose face was surgically fixed into a grin is pulled between love, spectacle, and aristocratic power.

A face, a trial, and nowhere for the truth to hide.

An impoverished Viennese prince falls for a working-class woman while family debt and social expectation prepare marriages for both of them.

A young woman arrives on an isolated Texas plain where relentless wind turns social danger into psychological siege.

A silent adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel directed by Herman C. Raymaker, listed as lost in the Library of Congress’s February 2021 inventory. Later versions appeared in 1933 and 1947.

An ageing burlesque performer tries to keep her convent-raised daughter away from the backstage life that has consumed her.

Two Christmas-tree salesmen and one resistant customer escalate a failed doorstep sale into the systematic destruction of property.

A struggling pianist and his dancer partner face poverty, illness, and the cost of accepting work that could separate them.

After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.

Beaumarchais’s Figaro moves through a late-silent adaptation drawing on The Marriage of Figaro and material from the surrounding plays.

A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.

A poor young woman forms a bond with a disabled war veteran whose isolated farm offers both refuge and a test of independence.

A city wakes, works, plays, and becomes cinema while the camera reveals its own tricks.

Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.

A family outing repeatedly fails to begin as a car, neighbours, weather, and irritation dismantle the promise of a perfect day.

A Hungarian servant’s attempt to retain her child is crushed by class power, bureaucracy, and the authority of a wealthy family.

Edmond Dantès’s imprisonment, escape, reinvention, and revenge unfold across an unusually expansive silent adaptation of Dumas.

A British officer who resigns before a military campaign receives four white feathers and travels to Sudan to prove his courage in disguise.

MGM stars appear in a succession of songs, comedy sketches, dances, and novelty acts designed to display the studio’s arrival in sound.

A woman who killed her lover claims self-defence, until a letter threatens the account on which her marriage and trial depend.

Two lifelong friends love the same woman on the Isle of Man, and a promise made before one man leaves creates a private tragedy on his return.

A young man tending an isolated river property meets a woman bound to an absent lover, and winter turns their encounter into dependence.

Petruchio courts Katherina through a contest of authority, performance, and humiliation in an early sound Shakespeare adaptation.

Sixteen minutes of dream logic sever cause from effect and make familiar objects suddenly unsafe.

An English soldier loses his memory of Lola, the dancer he loved in Paris. Their later reunion brings his wartime promise into conflict with his marriage.

German schoolboys enlist with patriotic excitement and encounter a trench war that steadily dismantles every promised meaning.

Jean Durand’s Détresse was filmed in 1929 and released in France on 23 May 1930.

Wheat, rain, faces, and a new tractor carry a village drama beyond the limits of propaganda.

Logging in Maine is followed from forest work through transport and milling towards the shipment of finished lumber.

A self-made young man plans to stop working while he is still young, alarming the wealthy family of the woman he intends to marry.

A Dublin family facing poverty believes an inheritance will rescue them, while political violence and self-deception close in.

A cabaret singer in Morocco is drawn to a Foreign Legion soldier even as a wealthy admirer offers the security he cannot provide.

A juror who helped convict an actress begins to doubt the verdict and privately investigates the theatrical world around the crime.

A scout leads a vast wagon train west while pursuing the men responsible for a friend’s murder.

A strict schoolteacher follows his pupils into a nightclub and becomes obsessed with the performer he intended to discipline them for watching.

A First World War squadron commander must keep sending inexperienced pilots into combat while the officers beneath him mistake responsibility for indifference.

Wrongly blamed for crimes after a shooting in self-defence, Buck Duane joins the Texas Rangers to clear his name and win Mary Aldridge’s trust.

Three former sideshow performers operate a criminal scheme through a false domestic identity, disguise, and divided loyalty.

A cavalry setting becomes the stage for romantic deception, honour, and the pressure placed on a woman whose choices are judged unequally.

A restless newspaper editor and his family move through decades of Oklahoma settlement, expansion, politics, and repeated departure.

After an underground disaster, German miners cross the border to rescue French workers despite the political divisions above them.

Made at night on Universal’s sets, George Melford’s Spanish-language production gives Dracula a distinct rhythm, cast, and visual life.

A boy robbed on his journey to Berlin recruits a fast-growing group of city children to follow the thief and recover the money.

A travelling cowboy enters a compact Western of danger, assistance, and conflict built around Tom Tyler’s direct screen presence.

Five men from different backgrounds shelter between the front lines of the First World War; only one understands all their languages.

Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and their friends enter a loose adventure drawn from Mark Twain but reshaped around child-star comedy.

A singer tries to protect her sister from a charming man whose previous relationship has already exposed the limits of his honesty.

Three people drift in a small boat while memory, landscape, and gesture loosen ordinary narrative time.

A child-killer hunted by the whole underworld. Electric.

A young man working in his father’s Marseille bar loves Fanny but cannot silence his longing to leave by sea.

Four stowaways loose on an ocean liner evade authority, invade other people’s roles, and turn a gangster plot into organised interruption.

A factory worker leaves her small town for New York, becomes the companion of a wealthy lawyer, and confronts the social limits placed on their relationship.