NYPL holds more than 1100 individual titles from the Silent Film era, often in different physical media formats. These links will take you into the NYPL's catalog to see more complete information about each title and individual media format. Most of these media are from our circulating collections and can checked out for home viewing. A few media are part of our research collections and can be requested to view onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media |
Dames ahoy / directed by William J. Craft | 1930 | VHS | ||
Earth / directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko | 1930 | 16mm | ||
Felix woos whoopee / directed by Otto Messmer | 1930 | VHS | ||
Forty winks / directed by Otto Messmer | 1930 | 16mm | ||
Hell-bound train / directed by James and Eloyce Gist | 1930 | DVD | ||
Hogaraka ni ayume = Walk cheerfully / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1930 | DVD | ||
Menschen am Sonntag: ein Film ohne Schauspieler / directed by Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer. | 1930 | DVD | ||
Sono yo no tsuma = That night's wife / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1930 | DVD | ||
The comeback / directed by Reinhold Schuenzel | 1930 | VHS | ||
The silent enemy: an epic of the American Indian / directed by H.P. Carver | 1930 | DVD | ||
Zeml︠i︡a = Earth / directed by Alexander Dovzhenko | 1930 | DVD | DVD | |
Mexican study film / directed by Sergei Eisenstein | 1930-1931 | 16mm | ||
A Bronx morning / directed by Jay Leyda | 1931 | 16mm | DVD | |
Koshiben ganbare = Flunky, work hard / directed by Mikio Naruse | 1931 | DVD | ||
Tabu / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1931 | 16mm | DVD | DVD |
Tōkyō no kōrasu / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1931 | DVD | ||
Nasanu naka = No Blood Relation / directed by Mikio Naruse | 1932 | DVD | ||
Umarete wa mita keredo = I was born, but... / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1932 | DVD | ||
Apart from you / directed by Mikio Naruse | 1933 | DVD | ||
Dekigokoro = Passing fancy / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1933 | DVD | ||
Every-night dreams / directed by Mikio Naruse | 1933 | DVD | ||
Floating weeds / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1934 | DVD | ||
Kagirinaki hodō / directed by Naruse Mikio | 1934 | DVD | ||
Schastʹe = Happiness / directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin | 1934 | VHS | ||
Legong: dance of the virgins / directed by Henry de la Falaise | 1935 | DVD | ||
Cologne: from the diary of Ray and Esther / directed by Esther Dowidat (uncredited) and Raymond Dowidat (uncredited) |
1939 | DVD | ||
Blue movies / Anonymous director | undated | DVD | ||
The fairy's farewell / Anonymous director | undated | DVD |