Movies

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In ...

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

John Wheeler (Warren Cook) gets himself in some financial hot water and needs to prove that he is half owner of some land in Canada. But the only ...

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

A pawnbroker’s assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the ...

The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy ...

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western ...

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the ...

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can’t get ...

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. ...

A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status ...

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner’s daughter, ...

Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he’s a lonely child, not allowed to play with ...

Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third ...

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, ...

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, ...

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen ...

On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the ...

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A ...

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress ...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she’s to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by ...

A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the ...

Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband ...

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. ...

In a mansion full of secret rooms and passageways, people are dying shortly after seeing the ghost of a woman in gray, as an old legend dictates. ...

Just as Galeen and Wegener’s Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) ...

A man (Thomas Edison’s assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second ...