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 | Media |
| A burlesque on Carmen / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| A jitney elopment / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| A night in the show / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | VHS | ||
| A night out / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| A woman / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| After death / directed by Evgeni Bauer | 1915 | DVD | |||
| An Arizona wooing / directed by Tom Mix | 1915 | 16mm | |||
| Assunta Spina / directed by Gustavo Serena and Francesca Bertini | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Bank / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| By the sea / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Carmen / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1915 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD |
| Cartoons in a seminary / directed by Raoul Barré | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Champion / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Crossed wires / directed by Frederick Sullivan | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Daydreams / directed by Evgenii Bauer | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Downhill / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Fatty's chance acquaintance / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Fatty's faithful Fido / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Fatty's plucky pup / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Fatty's reckless fling / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Fatty's tintype tangle / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Feet and hands / directed by Gaston Ravel | 1915 | DVD | |||
| His new job / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| His regeneration / directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | 1915 | VHS | |||
| How Molly made good / directed by Lawrence B. McGill | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Hypocrites / directed by Lois Weber | 1915 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| In the park / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| It's a gift / directed by Hal Roach | 1915 | 16mm | |||
| Kidnapped in New York / directed by J. Stuart Blackton | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Leap from the water tower / directed by J.P. McGowan | 1915 | 16mm | |||
| Les vampires / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Mabel and Fatty's married life / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Mabel and Fatty's wash day / directed by Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Mabel, Fatty and the law = Fatty's spooning days / directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle | 1915 | 16mm | |||
| Mabel's wilful way / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Madam Blanche, beauty doctor (Falstaff) / directed by Arthur Ellery | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Manslaughter / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1915 | DVD | DVD | ||
| Playing dead / directed by Sidney Drew | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Pool sharks / directed by Edwin Middleton | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Scandal / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Shanghaied / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | VHS | ||
| Sunshine Molly (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley | 1915 | DVD | |||
| That little band of gold / directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| The 1002nd ruse / directed by Evgenii Bauer | 1915 | VHS | |||
| The bank / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The birth of a nation / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1915 | 16mm | DVD | DVD | |
| The champion / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| The cheat / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1915 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |
| The golden chance / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1915 | 16mm | |||
| The hazards of Helen; Episode 26: The wild engine / directed by J.P. McGowan | 1915 | DVD | DVD | ||
| The hazards of Helen: Episode 13: The escape on the fast freight / directed by Paul Hurst | 1915 | DVD | |||
| The Italian / directed by Reginald Barker | 1915 | DVD | |||
| The lily of Belgium / directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz | 1915 | VHS | |||
| The regeneration / directed by R.A. Walsh | 1915 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |
| The soap suds star / produced by the Thanhouser Company | 1915 | VHS | |||
| The tramp / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| Their one love / directed by John Harvey | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Two knights of vaudeville / produced by the Ebony Film Corporation and by Luther Pollard | 1915 | DVD | |||
| When love took wings / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Wished on Mabel / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1915 | DVD | |||
| Work / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1915 | VHS | |||
| Young romance / directed by George H. Melford | 1915 | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| 20,000 leagues under the sea / directed by Stuart Paton | 1916 | DVD | |||
| A life for a life / directed by Evgeny Bauer | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Antosha ruined by a corset / directed by Edward Puchalski | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Behind the screen / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | VHS | DVD | ||
| Biscot on the wrong floor / Jacques Feyder | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Civilization / directed by Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, and Reginald Barker. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Concerning $1,000 (color) / Anonymous | 1916 | DVD | |||
| De voortrekkers = Winning a continent / directed by Harold M. Shaw |
1916 | DVD | |||
| Dying swan / directed by Evgeni Bauer | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Eleanor's catch / directed by Cleo Madison | 1916 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| Flirting with fate / directed by Christy Cabanne | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Friendly advice / directed by Jacques Feyder | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Gretchen the greenhorn / directed by Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin | 1916 | DVD | |||
| He did and he didn't (full tints version) / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1916 | DVD | |||
| He did and he didn't / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Heads... and women who use them / directed by Jacques Feyder | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Hell's hinges / directed by Charles Swickard | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Her defiance / directed by Cleo Madison and Joe Kingg | 1916 | DVD | |||
| His bitter pill / directed by Fred Fishback | 1916 | VHS | |||
| His picture in the papers / directed by John Emerson | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Idle wives (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Intolerance / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1916 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| Joan the woman / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1916 | VHS | DVD | ||
| Judex: Episode 1: The mysterious shadow / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 10: Jacqueline's heart / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 11: The water goddess / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 12: Love's forgiveness / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 2: The atonement / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 3: The fantastic dog pack / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 4: The secret of the tomb / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 5: The tragic mill / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 6. The liquorice kid / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 7. The woman in black / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 8. The underground passages of the Chateau-Rouge / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Episode 9. When the child appeared / directed by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Judex: Prologue / directed by by Louis Feuillade | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Krazy Kat: at the circus / directed by Leon Searl | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Manhattan madness / directed by Allan Dwan | 1916 | 16mm | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Dead come back / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Double cross / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Face of the stranger / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Hidden brand / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Hole-in-the-wall / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Hour to live / directed by William Parke | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Into thin air / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Lady in Number 7 / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Life current / directed by William Parke | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Love's sacrifice / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Masked stranger / directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: Riddle of the cross / directed by William Parke | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: stranger disposes / Pathé directed by William Parke. | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Mystery of the double cross: the feature serial of perils and love: When jailbirds fly / directed by William Parke | 1916 | VHS | |||
| One A.M. / directed by Charlie Chaplin. | 1916 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |
| Pikovaya dama = The Queen of spades / directed by Yakov Protazanov | 1916 | VHS | |||
| Police / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| The call of the Cumberlands / directed by Frank Lloyd | 1916 | DVD | |||
| The count / directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1916 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The fireman / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | VHS | |||
| The floorwalker / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| The habit of happiness Manhattan madness / directed by Allan Dwan | 1916 | VHS | |||
| The matrimaniac / directed by Paul Powell | 1916 | DVD | |||
| The mystery of the leaping fish / directed by John Emerson | 1916 | DVD | DVD | DVD | |
| The ocean waif / directed by Alice Guy Blaché | 1916 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| The pawnshop / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD |
| The rink / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |
| The vagabond / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1916 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| The waiters' ball / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1916 | DVD | |||
| The world and the woman / directed by W. Eugene Moore | 1916 | VHS | |||
| When little Lindy sang / directed by Lule Warrenton | 1916 | DVD | |||
| Where are my children? / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley | 1916 | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| '49-'17 / directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin | 1917 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| A girl's folly [abridged] / directed by Maurice Tourneur | 1917 | VHS | |||
| A girl's folly / directed by Maurice Tourneur | 1917 | 16mm | |||
| A modern musketeer / directed by Allan Dwan | 1917 | DVD | |||
| A reckless Romeo / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| A romance of the redwoods / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1917 | 16mm | |||
| Coney Island / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | DVD | ||
| Easy Street / directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1917 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |
| Farmer Alfalfa's wayward pup / directed by Paul Terry | 1917 | VHS | |||
| Fires of youth / directed by Emile Chautard | 1917 | VHS | |||
| For luck / directed by Evgenii Bauer | 1917 | VHS | |||
| His wedding night / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| Kulisy ekrana = Behind the screen (fragment of A life destroyed by pitiless fate) / directed by Georg Asagaroff and Alexandre Volkoff | 1917 | VHS | |||
| Oh Doctor! / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| One touch of nature (excerpts) / produced by The Thomas A. Edison Studios | 1917 | DVD | |||
| Straight shooting / directed by Jack Ford | 1917 | VHS | |||
| Terje vigen = A man there was / directed by Victor Sjöström | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The adventurer / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1917 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| The butcher boy (Can of molasses sketch) / Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The butcher boy / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The cure / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1917 | VHS | VHS | ||
| The curse of Quon Gwon: when the Far East mingles with the West / directed by Marion E. Wong | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The dinosaur and the missing link / directed by Willis O'Brien | 1917 | VHS | |||
| The high cost of living / directed by Sidney Drew | 1917 | VHS | |||
| The immigrant / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1917 | 16mm | VHS | VHS | |
| The little American / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The pet / directed by Winsor McCay | 1917 | 16mm | |||
| The purple mask: Episode 12: The vault of mystery / directed by Grace Cunard | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The purple mask: Episode 13, reel 1: The leap / directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The revolutionary / directed by Yevgeni Bauer | 1917 | VHS | |||
| The romance of the redwoods / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The rough house / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1917 | DVD | |||
| The vicar of Wakefield / directed by Ernest C. Warde | 1917 | VHS | |||
| Wild and woolly / directed by John Emerson | 1917 | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media |
| A reckless rover / directed by C.N. David | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley / directed by Marshall Neilan | 1918 | VHS | DVD | |
| Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru = The outlaw and his wife: a pictorial drama (in seven parts) of the lives of two people / directed by Victor Sjöström | 1918 | VHS | DVD | |
| Bobby Bumps puts a beanery on the bum / directed by Earl Hurd | 1918 | VHS | ||
| Bread (fragment) / directed by Ida May Park | 1918 | DVD | ||
| City slicker / directed by Hal Roach | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Co-operative weekly review / produced by Selznick Pictures Corp. | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Deuces and dangers / directed by Larry Semon | 1918 | VHS | ||
| Don't change your husband / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1918 | DVD | ||
| From beautiful Japan / directed by Benjamin Brodsky | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Good night, Nurse! / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Hands up (Hollywood promotional films: exhibitors' reel) | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Hearts of the world / directe by D.W. Griffith | 1918 | 16mm | ||
| M'liss / directed by Marshall Neilan | 1918 | 16mm | DVD | |
| Moonshine / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch / directed by Hugh Ford | 1918 | 16mm | ||
| Old wives for new / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Out west / directed by Roscoe Arbuckle | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Shifting sands / directed by Albert Parker | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Sinking of the Lusitania / directed by Winsor McCay | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Star Prince / directed by Madeline Brandeis | 1918 | VHS | ||
| Stella Maris /directed by Marshall Neilan | 1918 | 16mm | VHS | DVD |
| Take a chance / directed by Alfred J. Goulding | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The bell boy / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The blue bird / directed by Maurice Tourneur | 1918 | DVD | VHS | |
| The bond / directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The cook / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1918 | DVD | DVD | |
| The dream / directed by Marshall Neilan | 1918 | VHS | ||
| The dream lady / directed by Elsie Jane Wilson | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The master mystery (color tinted) / directed by Harry Grossman and Burton L. King | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The non-stop kid / directed by Hal Roach | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The risky road (fragment) / directed by Ida May Park | 1918 | DVD | ||
| The whispering chorus / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1918 | DVD | VHS | |
| Triple trouble / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1918 | VHS | ||
| Two gun Gussie / directed by Hal Roach | 1918 | DVD | ||
| Flip's circus (fragments) / directed by Winsor McCay | 1918-1921 | DVD | ||
| Gertie on tour (fragments) / directed by Winsor McCay | 1918-1921 | DVD | ||
| The Centaurs (fragments) / directed by Winsor McCay | 1918-1921 | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media |
| A day's pleasure / directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1919 | DVD | |
| A woman in grey : a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Dagger of death / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey : a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: House of horrors / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: At the mercy of flames / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Burning strands / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Chasm of fear / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Circumstantial evidence / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Drop to death / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Exonerated / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Fight for life / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Grip of fate / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: House of mystery / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Pages of the past / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Secret chamber / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Strangle knot / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| A woman in grey: a serial feature of mystery and adventure in fifteen episodes: Trap of steel / directed by James Vincent | 1919 | VHS | |
| Back stage / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1919 | DVD | |
| Back to God's country / directed by David Hartford | 1919 | VHS | DVD |
| Broken blossoms, or, The yellow man and the girl / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1919 | 16mm | DVD |
| Daddy-long-legs / directed by Marshall A. Neilan. | 1919 | VHS | DVD |
| Delicious little devil / directed by Robert Z. Leonard | 1919 | DVD | |
| Die austernprinzessin = The oyster princess / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1919 | DVD | |
| Die Puppe = The doll / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1919 | DVD | |
| Die Spinnen = The spiders: Part 1: The golden sea / directed by Fritz Lang. | 1919 | VHS | DVD |
| Different from the others / directed by Richard Oswald | 1919 | DVD | |
| False faces / directed by Irvin V. Willat | 1919 | VHS | |
| Feline follies / directed by Otto Messmer | 1919 | VHS | VHS |
| Hawthorne of the U.S.A. / directed by James Cruze | 1919 | DVD | |
| Heart o' the hills / directed by Sidney A. Franklin | 1919 | DVD | |
| Love ("lost" film) / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1919 | DVD | |
| Male and female / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1919 | 16mm | DVD |
| Passion / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1919 | VHS | |
| Ring up the curtain / directed by Hal Roach | 1919 | DVD | |
| Romance of Happy Valley / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1919 | 16mm | |
| Sir Arne's treasure: a winter ballad in five acts as filmed / directed by Mauritz Stiller | 1919 | DVD | |
| The breath of a nation / directed by Gregory La Cava | 1919 | DVD | |
| The busher / directed by Jerome Storm | 1919 | VHS | DVD |
| The dragon painter / directed by William Worthington | 1919 | 16mm | DVD |
| The eyes of youth / directed by Albert Parker | 1919 | VHS | |
| The funeral of Vera Kholnaia / Anonymous director | 1919 | VHS | |
| The ghost of Slumber Mountain / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1919 | DVD | |
| The greatest question / directed by D.W. Griffith. | 1919 | VHS | |
| The grim game (fragment, color tinted) / directed by Irving Willat | 1919 | DVD | |
| The hayseed / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1919 | DVD | |
| The Tong man / directed by William Worthington | 1919 | VHS | |
| The vengeance of Durand / directed by Tom Terriss | 1919 | VHS | |
| When the clouds roll by / directed by Victor Fleming | 1919 | DVD | DVD |
| Young Mr. Jazz / directed by Hal Roach | 1919 | DVD |