Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Silent Cinema: 128 Films to Rent
- Carmen (1915)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid
- From prolific Hollywood pioneer Cecil B. De Mille, this was one of his many early works that brought famous plays and novels to the screen. Opera…
- Keystone Komedies (1915-1926)
- Dir. Mack Sennett
Feat. Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Swain, Al St. John…
- A bevy of comic shorts from silent film legends the 'Keystone Production Company' founded by Mack Sennett. Featuring incredibly exaggerated slapstick…
- Les Vampires (1915)
- Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Musidora, Edouard Mathe
- The legendary French movie serial created by the enormously prolific silent dir. Feuillade, set around a murderous crime–ring who operate in…
- Laffing Gas (1914-1929)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin
- Prime comic–narcotic from the early days of the movies and the heyday of Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Llyod, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and…
- Fantomas (1913-1914)
- Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Edmund Breon, Rene Navarre, Georges Melchior…
- Early French film serial adapting the novel of the same name by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre about the criminal genius who is obsessively…
- Story of the Kelly Gang, The (1906)
- Dir. Charles Tait
- Thought to be the world’s first ever feature film, this dramatic recreation of the Ned Kelly outback legend stands as a remarkable artifact of…
- Early Cinema - Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910)
- A must for cinephiles, historians and the simply curious, this two–volume set of early silent films features rare and important works from…
- Landmarks of Early Film (1886-1913)
- A compilation of early films spanning the years from 1886 to 1913, beginning with experiments in "serial photography" and leading towards the…