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Rental > Silent Cinema: 131 Films to Rent on DVD
Harold Lloyd Collection, The (1918-1922)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Hal Roach, Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- An outstanding comedian of the silent era, Harold Lloyd forged a prolific oeuvre in the shadow of Chaplin and Keaton, films that were characterised…
Genius of Buster Keaton, The (The Short Films Collection) (1917-1923)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton
- A stunning, near–complete collection of 33 "two–reelers" from Buster Keaton's formative years before his run of successful feature…
Charlie Chaplin Collection (The Mutual Films Collection) (1916-1917)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin
- A collection of Chaplin "two–reelers" made for the Mutual Film Corporation that see him trialling and perfecting what would become the…
Intolerance (1916)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
- Staggeringly ambitious film has a rightful place in many critic's 'all–time' lists. Its mammoth story unfolds in four parts simultaneously…
Birth of a Nation (1915)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish
- The cinema's first major epic marked the birth of an artform – newly defining the artistic boundaries of the medium. It retains much of its…
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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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…
Regeneration (w/ Young Romance) (1915)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, Rockliffe Fellowes…
- The debut feature of director Raoul Walsh is an early gangster film following the trajectory of a poor orphan who grows up to assume a powerful…
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…