Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
True Heart Susie (1919)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Clarine Seymour…
- Lillian Gish plays an innocent and big–hearted country girl who sacrifices everything for the clueless minister that breaks her heart. A…
Chaplin Revue, The (1918-1923)
- Feat. Charles Chaplin
- A collection of comic shorts from Charlie Chaplin, playing his 'Tramp' character.
Featured are 'Shoulder Arms', 'The Idle Class', 'The Pilgrim',…
Harold Lloyd Collection, The (1918-1922)
- 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)
- 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…