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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)![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…
Laffing Gas (1914-1929)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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…