Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Silent Cinema: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
- Genius of Buster Keaton, The (The Short Films Collection) (1917-1923)
- 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…
- Burlesque On Carmen (1916)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin
- A twist ending highlights Chaplin's second 'feature' in which his forlorn soldier is loved and left by a gypsy girl.
- Charlie Chaplin Collection (The Mutual Films Collection) (1916-1917)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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…
- 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…