video
label
director
publication date
genre
Newark Athlete
William Kennedy Dickson
1891
documentary film silent film
Blacksmith Scene
William Kennedy Dickson
1893
docufiction film documentary film silent film
Fred Ott's Sneeze
William Kennedy Dickson
1894
silent film
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
William Kennedy Dickson
1895
LGBT-related film silent film sound film
The Kiss
William Heise
1896
romance film melodrama silent film
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
Enoch J. Rector
1897
documentary film silent film boxing film
Something Good – Negro Kiss
William Nicholas Selig
1898
silent film
President McKinley Inauguration Footage
Thomas Edison
1901
documentary film silent film
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
Frederick S. Armitage
1901
documentary film silent film
Life of an American Fireman
Edwin Stanton Porter George S. Fleming
1903
action film drama film silent film
Rip Van Winkle
William Kennedy Dickson
1903
The Great Train Robbery
Edwin Stanton Porter
1903-12-01
heist film Western film action film silent film
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street
Billy Bitzer
1905-06-06
documentary film
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906
1906
silent film documentary film
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. Edwin Stanton Porter
1906
silent film fantasy film
A Trip Down Market Street
1906-04-21
phantom ride silent film
A Corner in Wheat
D. W. Griffith
1909
drama film silent film
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
J. Stuart Blackton
1909
silent film fantasy film
White Fawn's Devotion
James Young Deer
1910
drama film silent film
Little Nemo
J. Stuart Blackton Winsor McCay
1911-04-08 1911
silent film live-action animated film
The Cry of the Children
George Nichols
1912
drama film silent film
From the Manger to the Cross
Sidney Olcott
1912
drama film silent film biographical film
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
D. W. Griffith
1912
silent film drama film
A Cure for Pokeritis
Laurence Trimble
1912
comedy film silent film
The Land Beyond the Sunset
Harold M. Shaw
1912
drama film silent film fantasy film
Traffic in Souls
George Loane Tucker
1913
crime film silent film
Preservation of the Sign Language
George Veditz
1913
documentary film silent film
The Evidence of the Film
Lawrence Marston Edwin Thanhouser
1913
crime film silent film
Suspense
Phillips Smalley Lois Weber
1913
silent film drama film
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Henry Lehrman
1914
silent film comedy film
Tess of the Storm Country
Edwin Stanton Porter
1914
drama film silent film
The Bargain
Reginald Barker
1914
silent film Western film
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis
1914 1914-12-07
docufiction film silent film drama film
Gertie the Dinosaur
Winsor McCay
1914-02-08 1914
fantasy film silent film
The Birth of a Nation
D. W. Griffith
1915-01-01
drama film silent film film based on a novel
Regeneration
Raoul Walsh
1915
romance film biographical film crime film silent film drama film
A Fool There Was
Frank Powell
1915
drama film silent film
The Italian
Reginald Barker
1915
silent film drama film
The Cheat
Cecil B. DeMille
1915-12-13
drama film silent film
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Stuart Paton
1916
adventure film silent film film based on a novel science fiction film
Intolerance
D. W. Griffith
1916
drama film art film silent film
Where Are My Children?
Phillips Smalley Lois Weber
1916
silent film drama film
The Curse of Quon Gwon
Marion E. Wong
1916 1917
silent film
Hell's Hinges
William S. Hart Charles Swickard Clifford Smith
1916
Western film silent film
Shoes
Lois Weber
1916-06-26
silent film drama film
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Maurice Tourneur
1917
comedy drama silent film drama film fantasy film
The Immigrant
Charlie Chaplin
1917
silent film romantic comedy social comedy film
The Blue Bird
Maurice Tourneur
1918
fantasy film children's film silent film
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Winsor McCay
1918
silent film
Broken Blossoms
D. W. Griffith
1919
romance film silent film drama film
One Week
Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton
1920 1920-08-29 1920-12
comedy film silent film
Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux
1920-01-12
silent film drama film
Daughter of Dawn
Norbert A. Myles
1920-10
silent film Western film romance film
The Last of the Mohicans
Maurice Tourneur Clarence Brown
1920-10-28
silent film drama film adventure film film based on a novel
The Mark of Zorro
Fred Niblo
1920-11-27 1921-11-09 1921-11-11 1921-12-29 1922-01-20 1922-02-27 1922-06-23
silent film film based on a novel swashbuckler film adventure film
The Kid
Charlie Chaplin
1921 1921-01-16 1921-01-21 1921-01-30 1921-02-06
comedy drama drama film silent film social comedy film
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Rex Ingram
1921
romance film war film silent film drama film
Tol'able David
Henry King John G. Blystone
1921
drama film silent film
Cops
Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton
1922 1922-03-11
comedy film silent film
Foolish Wives
Erich von Stroheim Gustav Machatý
1922 1922-01-11
drama film silent film
Sky High
Lynn Reynolds
1922
Western film silent film drama film action film
Manhatta
Charles Sheeler Paul Strand
1922
documentary film silent film
Nanook of the North
Robert J. Flaherty
1922-06-11
documentary film drama film silent film
Salomé
Charles Bryant
1923-02-15
drama film LGBT-related film tragedy silent film
Safety Last!
Fred C. Newmeyer Sam Taylor
1923-04-01
romantic comedy silent film
The Iron Horse
John Ford
1924 1924-08-28 1925-05-31 1925-10-04 1926-04-12
Western film silent film
Greed
Erich von Stroheim
1924
drama film silent film film based on literature
The Thief of Bagdad
Raoul Walsh
1924
fantasy film silent film drama film
The Navigator
Donald Crisp Buster Keaton
1924 1924-09-28 1924-10-13 1924-11-02
comedy thriller silent film action film
Peter Pan
Herbert Brenon
1924
fantasy film children's film silent film pirate film film based on a novel
He Who Gets Slapped
Victor Sjöström
1924 1924-11-09 1924-12-22
drama film silent film
The Chechahcos
Lewis H. Moomaw
1924
silent film drama film
Sherlock, Jr.
Buster Keaton Roscoe Arbuckle
1924-04-21 1924-04-17 1924-05-11 1924-05
comedy film action film romance film silent film
Lady Windermere's Fan
Ernst Lubitsch
1925
comedy drama silent film romance film
Grass
Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack
1925
documentary film silent film
Clash of the Wolves
Noel M. Smith
1925
Western film silent film
The Freshman
Fred C. Newmeyer Sam Taylor
1925 1925-09-20
comedy film silent film American football film
Body and Soul
Oscar Micheaux
1925
drama film silent film
The Lost World
Harry O. Hoyt
1925-02-02
horror film science fiction film fantasy film monster film silent film film based on a novel adventure film
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck
Theodore Willard Case
1925-06
musical film
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin
1925-06-26 1925-08-15 1925-09-19 1925-09-27
silent film comedy film romantic comedy social comedy film
The Big Parade
King Vidor George W. Hill
1925-11-05
drama film silent film war film romance film
Hands Up!
Clarence G. Badger Louis J. Gasnier
1926
silent film war film comedy film
The General
Buster Keaton Clyde Bruckman
1926 1926-12-25 1926-12-26 1927-01-02 1927-02-21 1927-02-24 1927-04-04
romantic comedy silent film war film
The Son of the Sheik
George Fitzmaurice
1926
drama film silent film adventure film
Flesh and the Devil
Clarence Brown
1926
romance film silent film drama film
The Wedding March
Erich von Stroheim
1926
drama film romance film silent film
So's Your Old Man
Gregory La Cava
1926
silent film
Mighty Like a Moose
Leo McCarey
1926
silent film
The Black Pirate
Albert Parker
1926
swashbuckler film silent film pirate film
Ella Cinders
Alfred Edward Green
1926
comedy drama silent film
The Flying Ace
Richard Edward Norman
1926 1926-11-05
silent film
The Strong Man
Frank Capra
1926-09-19
comedy film silent film romance film
Wings
William Augustus Wellman Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
1927 1929-01-10 1927-05-19 1927-08-12 1929-01-05
war film romance film drama film silent film action film
It
Clarence G. Badger Josef von Sternberg
1927 1927-02-15
romantic comedy comedy film silent film
The Battle of the Century
Clyde Bruckman
1927
comedy film buddy film silent film boxing film
Seventh Heaven
Frank Borzage
1927-05-06
drama film silent film romance film war film
The Last Command
Josef von Sternberg
1928
romance film war film silent film drama film
Lonesome
Paul Fejos
1928
romance film Part-talkie
The Crowd
King Vidor
1928
drama film silent film
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Charles Reisner
1928 1928-04-05 1928-05-20 1928-12-31
action comedy film silent film drama film
The Docks of New York
Josef von Sternberg
1928
romance film silent film drama film
The Cameraman
Edward Sedgwick Buster Keaton
1928 1928-09-10 1928-09-22 1928-10-27
romantic comedy comedy drama silent film
The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra
Robert Florey
1928
drama film silent film
Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
1928-07-29 1928-11-18 1928-05-15
musical film
The Wind
Victor Sjöström
1928-09-15
romance film silent film film based on literature drama film
H2O
Ralph Steiner
1929
silent film
St. Louis Blues
Dudley Murphy
1929
musical film drama film
The Front Page
Lewis Milestone Nate Watt
1931
comedy film
A Bronx Morning
Jay Leyda
1931
documentary film silent film
The Emperor Jones
Dudley Murphy William Churchill deMille
1933 1933-09-19 1933-09-29
drama film
Becky Sharp
Rouben Mamoulian Lowell Sherman
1935
drama film film based on a novel
Under Western Stars
Joseph Kane
1938-04-20
Western film action film musical film
Verbena Tragica
Charles Lamont
1939
drama film
Siege
Julien Bryan
1940
documentary film
His Girl Friday
Howard Hawks
1940-01-11 1940-01-18 1940-09-21
romantic comedy comedy of remarriage comedy drama drama film
The Blood of Jesus
Spencer Williams
1941
drama film fantasy film
Jam Session
Josef Berne
1942
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren Alexandr Hackenschmied
1943
silent film
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1944 1944-12-27
comedy drama drama film romantic comedy musical film
The Negro Soldier
Stuart Heisler
1944
propaganda film drama film documentary film war film
Detour
Edgar G. Ulmer
1945
crime film drama film film noir film based on a novel
The House I Live In
Mervyn LeRoy
1945
drama film
The Battle of San Pietro
John Huston
1945-05-03
documentary film propaganda film war film
Footage of World War II by George Stevens
George Stevens
1946
documentary film war film
In the Street
Helen Levitt James Agee Janice Loeb
1948
documentary film silent film
D.O.A.
Rudolph Maté
1950
film noir crime thriller drama film mystery film
Duck and Cover
Anthony Rizzo
1952
documentary film
Eaux d'artifice
Kenneth Anger
1953
independent film experimental film
All My Babies
George C. Stoney
1953
documentary film
The Hitch-Hiker
Ida Lupino
1953 1953-03-20 1953-03-21 1953-04-03
drama film crime film film noir
The House in the Middle
1954
documentary film propaganda
Salt of the Earth
Herbert Biberman
1954 1954-03-14 1954-05-07 1955-03-03 1955-03-04
drama film
The Man with the Golden Arm
Otto Preminger
1955
drama film film noir film based on a novel
Modesta
Benjamin Doniger
1956
Why We Fight
war film documentary film propaganda film