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 |
| Various films / produced by Thomas Edison | 1889-1905 | VHS |
| Buffalo Bill's wild west: Annie Oakley, Buffalo dance, Bucking broncho / produced by the Edison Mfg. Co. | 1894 | DVD |
| Peepshow kinetoscopes / produced by the Edison Mfg. Co. | 1894 | DVD |
| Various films / produced by the Edison Company | 1894-1897 | DVD |
| Various films / produced by the Edison Company | 1894-1899 | 16mm |
| Lumière premiere program / directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière | 1895 | 16mm |
| Various films / directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière | 1895-1896 | DVD |
| Une partie de cartes = Card party / directed by Georges Méliès | 1896 | DVD |
| Le manoir du diable = The haunted castle / directed by Georges Méliès | 1896 | DVD |
| Rip Van Winkle / directed William K. L. Dickson, | 1896 | DVD |
| Various films / directed by Georges Méliès | 1896-1913 | DVD |
| Bombardement d'un maison = The last cartridges / directed by Georges Méliès | 1897 | DVD |
| Combat naval en Grèce = Sea fighting in Greece / directed by Georges Méliès | 1897 | DVD |
| Défense d'afficher = Post no bills / directed by Georges Méliès | 1897 | DVD |
| Early advertising films: Admiral Cigarette | 1897 | DVD |
| L'hallucination de l'alchemiste = An hallucinated alchemist / directed by Georges Méliès | 1897 | DVD |
| Mr. Edison at work in his chemical laboratory | 1897 | DVD |
| Sur le toits = On the roof / directed by Georges Méliès | 1897 | DVD |
| Casey at the bat or, The fate of a "rotten" umpire (fragment) / produced by Thomas A. Edison Co. | 1899 | DVD |
| King John / directed by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando | 1899 | VHS |
| The passion play / directed by Henry C. Vincent | 1899 | 16mm |