 | Escape From Sobibor - Jack Gold
Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience.
Keywords: Alan Arkin; Rutger Hauer; Sobibor; Nazi
Downloads: 99,707
Average rating:  (10 reviews) |  |
| The Goat - Joseph M. Schenck
Dumb luck sets some policemen on his trail -- after a series of innovative escapes, he gets mistaken for a murderer with a price on his head, which means the people that aren't chasing him are fleeing from him.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
Downloads: 7,646
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Rashomon - Minoru Jingo, Masaichi Nagata
A rape and murder in medieval Japan are recounted in four flashback sequences, as seen through the eyes of the three people involved and a witness to the incident. Each version differs from the others, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions on what actually transpired. Akira Kurosawa's breakthrough drama stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Mystery; Thriller; Akira Kurosawa
Downloads: 24,297
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Kansas City Confidential - Edward Small
Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is beaten up by the local police. Released due to lack of evidence, Joe, following the clues to a Mexican resort, decides to look for the men who set him up and get revenge.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 3,218
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Steamboat Bill, Jr. - Joseph M. Schenck
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is the story of a naive, college-educated dandy who must prove himself to his working-class father, a hot-headed riverboat captain, while courting the daughter of his father's rival, who threatens to put Steamboat Bill, Sr. and his paddle-wheeler out of business.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
Downloads: 8,944
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Two Weeks to Live - Jack William Votion and Ben Hersh
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 4,994
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| School`s Out - Hal Roach
The kids mistake Miss Crabtree's brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him.
Keywords: Comedy; Hal Roach; Our Gang
Downloads: 22,079
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| War Comes to America
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: documentary; war
Downloads: 11,656
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Forgotten Village - Alexander Hammid, Herbert Kline
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 5,234
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Dr. Pyckle And Mr. Pride
Comedy masterpiece starring Stan Laurel as the dashing Dr. Pyckle, who transforms into the fiendish Mr. Pride. This hilarious movie from 1925 shows the true genius of Stan Laurel. A gem!
Keywords: Stan Laurel; comedy; parody
Downloads: 4,352
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| La Ciociara (Two Women) - Carlo Ponti
The Film tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sophia Loren). It was the first time an actress won an acting award for a non-English speaking role.
Keywords: Drama; War
Downloads: 23,203
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Scrooge - Julius Hagen
Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley's Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography. This is the uncut 78 minute version.
Keywords: Dickens; Scrooge; A Christmas Carol
Downloads: 7,751
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Nora inu (Stray Dog) - Sojiro Motoki
Rookie homicide detective Murakami (Toshirō Mifune) frantically seeks his stolen Colt pistol, which to his intense shame had been pickpocketed on a bus. The manhunt soon gains focus when the first victim is found and an older and wiser detective, Sato (Takashi Shimura) takes Murakami under his wing. The action throughout takes place during a brutal heatwave in a still partially bombed-out post-war Tokyo...
Keywords: Drama; Thriller; Japanese; Akira Kurosawa
Downloads: 2,263
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone
Adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, the film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them ...
Keywords: Action; Drama; History; War
Downloads: 2,007
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| So This Is Washington - Ben Hersh
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 3,549
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Malice in the Palace - Jules White
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: comedy; short; three stooges
Downloads: 19,906
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Demolishing and Building Up Star Theatre
Time lapse shot of the demolition of the Star Theatre in New York City. Produced by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and preserved by the Library of Congress.
Keywords: actuality
Downloads: 3,601
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Hoosier Schoolboy - Ken Goldsmith
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 1,199
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Under Capricorn
From IMDb: Charles Adare (Michael Wilding) arrives in Australia in 1831 with his uncle, the new governor (Cecil Parker). Unsuccessful in Ireland, Charles hopes to make his fortune in Sydney. He is befriended by Samson Flusky (Joseph Cotten), a prosperous ex-convict. Sam's wife, Lady Henrietta, "Hattie" (Ingrid Bergman), was a friend of Charles's sister in Ireland. Sam hopes that the young man will be able to cheer up his wife, who is a mentally unstable alcoholic...
Keywords: Hitchcock; suspense; murder; crime
Downloads: 4,277
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| That's My Baby - Walter Colmes
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 2,851
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Popeye: The Paneless Window Washer - Adolph Zukor
Popeye and Bluto are again competing against one another. Only this time, it's not for Olive Oyl's love, but for the privilege of being able to wash her windows. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Classic cartoon; 1930s; Popeye
Downloads: 5,566
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| With the Marines at Tarawa - Louis Hayward
Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
Keywords: WWII; war; documentary; Tarawa
Downloads: 8,070
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress - First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps
This film is a war documentary produced by one of the "Hollywood Colonels," William Wyler, who joined the Air Force Film unit and recorded the sights and sounds of the last mission of a B-17 bomber known as the Memphis Belle, named after the girlfriend of the pilot. A narrator told the story of the 10 crewmen as examples of simple average American boys doing a tough job. The men and plane were filmed during the bombing raid on the submarine plens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany, "just one mission of j...
Keywords: WWII; war; documentary; b17
Downloads: 17,270
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| His First Flame - Mack Sennett
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 3,894
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Sherlock Jr
www.IMDB.com says: In an age before computer generated effects Sherlock Jr's out of control ride on the handlebars of a motorcycle is astonishing. It is a sequence that could never be duplicated in the modern era. Buster plays a theater projectionist with dreams of becoming a master sleuth. When he loses his girl...
Keywords: Silent; feature; film; sound
Downloads: 5,448
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Trail Riders - George W. Weeks
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 1,334
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Phantom Of The Opera (1929) - Carl Laemmle
The most commonly available version, this release is visual-only representation with musical accompaniment) of the 1929 sound reissue for foreign markets (note that the title sequence and Carlotta's performance as Marguerite are shot at sound speed of 24 frames per second) and is the best surviving 35mm version of the film (the 1925 general release version only exists in 16mm show-at-home prints and is of very poor quality)...
Keywords: silent; drama; horror; Lon Chaney
Downloads: 6,641
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Neighbors
Neighbors / Frigo a soused (1920) info: http://www.csfd.cz/film.php?5119 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0011508/
Keywords: Frigo; Buster Keaton
Downloads: 1,495
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Sunnyside"
Charlie Chaplin's 66th Film Released June 15 1919. Sunnyside is a 1919 short silent film written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was his third film for First National Films. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010747/ More Charlie Chaplin Movies
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 6,467
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Circus
Plot Outline: The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. Visit Imdb.com for more info: http://imdb.com/title/tt0018773/
Downloads: 1,668
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Scarecrow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011656/ nota: 8.3 in IMDB ^^ Is a great film!!!
Keywords: Buster keaton
Downloads: 6,462
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Beachcomber - Charles Laughton, Erich Pommer
AKA Vessel of Wrath. If you enjoy Somerset Maugham stories, then you will enjoy this near-perfect, delightful film adaptation. The characters catch the essence of Maugham, and both Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester (husband and wife team) breath life into two very opposite sorts of people who discover--through adversity--that they have more in common than they dreamed possible
Keywords: Comedy; Drama
Downloads: 2,625
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| keaton.love.nest
Buster Keaton --> Love Nest / Frigo kapitánem info: http://imdb.com/title/tt0014218/ http://www.csfd.cz/film.php?5115 upload by: formelin / silent-era.net
Downloads: 137
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| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock - Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges
This final film by silent screen star Harold Lloyd comes nine years after his previous feature. In this film, that reprises a character portrayed by Lloyd in a 1925 film, it is shown what happened to our hero, Harold Diddlebock (Lloyd), twenty years after his big triumph on the college football field. Struggling in the same job he received twenty years previous, Diddlebock is fired so he wanders the streets and eventually goes into a bar...
Keywords: Comedy; Preston Sturges; Harold Lloyd
Downloads: 1,974
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Behind The Screen"
Charlie Chaplin's 57th Film released November 13 1916. Behind the Screen, a short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance. In the film which takes place in a movie studio, Chaplin plays a stagehand named David while Campbell ("Goliath") plays his supervisor. Much of the film is slapstick comedy but other issues are also brought up such as a stagehand strike as well as a plotline in which Purviance, unable to become an actress, dresses as a man ...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 4,344
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman"
Charlie Chaplin's 44th Film Released July 12 1915 A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majectic Studio. The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna (Edna Purviance) and her parents in a park; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley. In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna's father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 5,163
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Haul in One, A
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
Keywords: popeye; animation
Downloads: 10,231
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Take Me Back To Oklahoma - Edward Finney
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 1,672
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Dick Tracy Movie Serial Chapter 4 - Nat Levine
Chapter 4 of The 1937 Dick Tracy movie serial
Keywords: Action; Serial; Dick Tracy
Downloads: 3,595
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| I'm in the Army Now
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: popeye; animation
Downloads: 9,913
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Dick Tracy Movie Serial Chapter 13 - Nat Levine
Keywords: Action; Serial; Dick Tracy
Downloads: 2,362
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
The corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue was renowned for its gusty breezes that might allow a man to catch a glimpse of a woman's stockings. In this staged scene we see Alfred Abadie, an Edison cameraman, and Florence Georgie strolling along when Georgie has a Marilyn Monroe type moment. This film was restored by the Library of Congress and was copied at 16fps from 35mm.
Keywords: Edison; silent
Downloads: 12,687
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Gang Bullets
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: crime; drama
Downloads: 5,413
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Piano Tooners
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: tom and jerry; animation
Downloads: 11,846
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Dick Tracy Movie Serial Chapter2 - Nat Levine
Keywords: Action; Serial; Dick Tracy
Downloads: 3,096
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 12
Keywords: Action; Adventure; Sci-Fi
Downloads: 10,360
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Undersea Kingdom: Chapter 8 - Into the Metal Tower - Nat Levine
Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, travels with Professor Norton, his Son Billy, and plucky reporter Diana Compton to the Undersea Kingdom of Atlantis to locate the cause of series of earthquakes. When they arrive Crash and his friends become embroiled in battle between warring Atlanteans.
Keywords: Serial; Action; Cliffhanger; Undersea Kingdom
Downloads: 1,953
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Popeye the Sailor - Ancient Fistory
Popeye the sailor Ancient Fistory public domain, better quality/richer color than this one: http://www.archive.org/details/popeye_the_sailor_ancient_fantasy cartoon came on a dvd of the Sonny Chiba film "The Street Fighter" and "Return of the Street Fighter" double feature issued by PC Treasures, Inc.
Keywords: popeye the sailor ancient fistory cartoon cartoons
Downloads: 260
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Second Chorus - Boris Morros
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 3,389
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Dick Tracy Movie Serial Chapter 15
Keywords: Action; Serial; Dick Tracy
Downloads: 2,668
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
