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 |
| Along the Moonbeam Trail / directed by Herert M. Dawley | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Anna Boleyn: a historical drama in six acts / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Captain Kidd's kids / directed by Hal Roach | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Convict 13 / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1920 | DVD | DVD | VHS |
| Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari: ein filmspiel in 6 Akten = The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / directed by Robert Wiene. | 1920 | 16mm | DVD | DVD |
| De-light : making an electric light bulb / produced by Ford Motor Company | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Die Spinnen = The spiders: Part 2: The diamond ship / directed by Fritz Lang. | 1920 | VHS | DVD | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / directed by John S. Robertson | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Erotikon: a comedy in five acts / directed by Mauritz Stiller | 1920 | DVD | ||
| From hand to mouth / directed by Alfred Goulding | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Headin' home / directed by Lawrence Windom | 1920 | 16mm | DVD | |
| High and dizzy / directed by Hal Roach | 1920 | DVD | ||
| His royal slyness / directed by Hal E. Roach | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Ich möchte kein Mann sein = I don't want be a man / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Just pals / directed by John Ford | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Kismet / directed by Louis J. Gasnier | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Krazy Kat: the great cheese robbery / directed by Vernon Stallings | 1920 | VHS | ||
| Neighbors / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1920 | VHS | DVD | DVD |
| Newman laugh-o-grams / directed by Walt Disney | 1920 | VHS | ||
| Nomads of the north / directed by David M. Hartford. | 1920 | VHS | ||
| Number, please? / directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Hal Roach | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Nurse Marjorie / directed by William Desmond Taylor | 1920 | VHS | ||
| One week / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1920 | 16mm | VHS | DVD |
| Screen snapshots (excerpt) | 1920 | DVD | ||
| So long Letty / directed by Lloyd Bacon | 1920 | 16mm | ||
| Something new / directed by Ernest Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Something new / directed by Nell Shipman | 1920 | VHS | ||
| Stolen moments / directed by James Vincent | 1920, 1922 | DVD | ||
| Suds / directed by Jack Dillon | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Sumurun: an oriental play in six acts / directed by Ernst Lubitsch. | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Terror Island / directed by James Cruze | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The cat and the canary / directed by Paul Leni | 1920 | VHS | ||
| The flapper / directed by Alan Crosland | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The garage / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The golem: how he came into the world / directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The jungle princess / directed by E.A. Martin | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The last of the Mohicans / directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown | 1920 | 16mm | ||
| The man who had everything / directed by Alfred Green | 1920 | VHS | ||
| The mark of Zorro / directed by Fred Niblo | 1920 | VHS | DVD | |
| The mollycoddle / directed by Victor Fleming | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The penalty / directed by Wallace Worsley | 1920 | VHS | DVD | |
| The phantom chariot / directed by Victor Sjöström | 1920 | 16mm | ||
| The saphead / directed by Herbert Blaché | 1920 | DVD | VHS | |
| The scarecrow / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1920 | VHS | DVD | DVD |
| The symbol of the unconquered: a story of the Ku Klux Klan / directed by Oscar Micheaux | 1920 | DVD | ||
| The toll gate / directed by Lambert Hillyer | 1920 | VHS | ||
| Way down east / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1920 | 16mm | DVD | |
| Why change your wife? / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1920 | DVD | ||
| Within our gates / directed by Oscar Micheaux | 1920 | VHS | DVD | DVD |
| Birth of a hat : the art and mystery of making fur felt hats / produced by John B. Stetson Co. | 1920 circa | DVD | ||
| Early advertising films: Flash Cleaner | 1920 circa | DVD | ||
| Character studies (recently discovered) / with Carter DeHaven, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino | 1920s | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| Alexander Dumas' The three musketeers / directed by Fred Niblo | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Among those present / directed by Fred Newmeyer | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Anna Christie / directed by Thomas H. Ince | 1921 | 16mm | |||
| Bug vaudeville / directed by Winsor McCay | 1921 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| By right of birth (fragment) / directed by Harry A. Gant | 1921 | DVD | |||
| A daughter of "the law" / directed by Grace Cunard | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Famous ride on a runaway train / produced by Lyman H. Howe | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Fireman! Save my child! / produced by Sarg-Dawley Shadowgraphs | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Hard luck / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. | 1921 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Is life worth living / directed by Alan Crosland | 1921 | VHS | |||
| Kökarlen = The phantom carriage / directed by Victor Sjöström | 1921 | DVD | |||
| La terre = The earth / directed by André Antoine | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Leap year / directed by James Cruze | 1921 | VHS | |||
| Leave 'em laughing / directed by Clyde Bruckman | 1921 | 16mm | |||
| Lotus blossom (surviving reel) / directed by Francis J. Grandon and James B. Leong | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Miss Lulu Bett / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Modeling / directed by Max and Dave Fleischer | 1921 | VHS | |||
| Never weaken / directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 1921 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| Now or never / directed by Hal Roach and Fred Newmeyer | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Orphans of the storm / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1921 | VHS | DVD | ||
| Outside the law / directed by Tod Browning | 1921 | VHS | |||
| Round about Hollywood | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Second hundred years / directed by Fred Guiol | 1921 | 16mm | |||
| The "High Sign" / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The affairs of Anatol / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The bellhop / directed by Larry Semon | 1921 | VHS | |||
| The blot / directed by Lois Weber | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The boat / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1921 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| The devil's foot / directed by Maurice Elvey | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The dying detective / directed by Maurice Elvey | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The first circus / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The flying coffer / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The flying house / directed by Winsor McCay | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The goat / directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair | 1921 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The haunted house / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1921 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The high sign / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1921 | VHS | |||
| The kid / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1921 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| The love light / directed by Frances Marion | 1921 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The man with the twisted lip / directed by Maurice Elvey | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The nut / directed by Theodore Reed | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The orignal tooth carpenter / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The pet / directed by Winsor McCay | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The play house / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The playhouse / directed by Eddie Cline | 1921 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| The sawmill / directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog | 1921 | DVD | |||
| The wildcat: a grotesque in four acts / directed by Ernst Lubtisch | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Through the back door / directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford | 1921 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| Tol'able David / directed by Henry King | 1921 | 16mm | VHS | ||
| Too wise wives / directed by Lois Weber | 1921 | 16mm | |||
| What do men want? (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber | 1921 | DVD | |||
| When the whale was Jonahed / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Why they loved cavemen / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1921 | DVD | |||
| Selznick news / produced by Selznick Pictures Corp. | 1921 circa | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| A dog's love / directed by Jack Harvey | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| A trip through Paramountown | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Beyond the rocks / directed by Sam Wood | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Blood and sand / directed by Fred Niblo | 1922 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | ||
| Casey at the bat / produced by DeForest Phonofilms | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Cops / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1922 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD | ||
| Day dreams / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1922 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |||
| Down to the sea in ships / directed by Elmer Clifton | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler = Dr. Mabuse, the gambler: Part 1: The great gambler, a picture of our time / directed by Fritz Lang | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler = Dr. Mabuse, the gambler: Part 2. Inferno, a game of people of our time / directed by Fritz Lang | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Dragnet girl / directed by Yasujiro Ozu | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Felix saves the day / animated cartoon by Pat Sullivan | 1922 | VHS | DVD | ||||
| Flesh and blood / directed by Irving Cummings. | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Foolish wives / directed by Erich von Stroheim | 1922 | 16mm | DVD | ||||
| Häxan: ett kulturhistorist föredrag i levande bilder i 7 avdelningar = Witchcraft through the ages / directed by Benjamin Christensen | 1922 | 16mm | DVD | ||||
| Leap year / directed by James Cruze and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Lorna Doone / directed by Maurice Tourneur | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Monte Cristo / directed by Emmett J. Flynn | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Moran of the Lady Letty / directed by George Melford | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| My wife's Relations / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1922 | VHS | DVD | ||||
| Nanook of the North / directed by Robert J. Flaherty | 1922 | VHS | DVD | ||||
| Nosferatu: a symphony of horror / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1922 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | Blu-Ray |
| Oliver Twist / directed by Frank Lloyd. | 1922 | VHS | |||||
| Robin Hood / directed by Allan Dwan | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Seeing stars / produced by Associated First National Pictures | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Shadows / directed by Tom Forman | 1922 | VHS | |||||
| Shine 'em up / directed by James D. Davis | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| Tess of the storm country / directed by John Robertson | 1922 | VHS | VHS | DVD | |||
| That ice ticket / directed by Angela Murray Gibson | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The blacksmith / directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair | 1922 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | ||
| The cheat / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The electric house / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1922 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | ||
| The first earful / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The frogs who wanted a king / directed by Ladislaw Starewicz | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The frozen north / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1922 | VHS | DVD | ||||
| The headless horseman / directed by Edward Venturini. | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The light of faith / directed by Clarence Brown | 1922 | VHS | |||||
| The man from beyond (color tinted) / directed by Burton L. King | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The original movie / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The original movie / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The paleface / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1922 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |||
| The sawmill / directed by Larry Semon | 1922 | VHS | |||||
| The secret of the marquise / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The show / directed by Larry Semon | 1922 | VHS | DVD | ||||
| The toll of the sea / directed by Chester M. Franklin | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| The young rajah / directed by Philip Rosen | 1922 | DVD | |||||
| When knighthood was in flower / directed by Robert G. Vignola | 1922 | DVD | Blu-Ray | ||||
| Why Adam walked the floor / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1922 | DVD |
| Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| A few moments with Eddie Cantor | 1923 | DVD | |||
| A woman of Paris: a drama of fate / directed by Charles Chaplin | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Adam's rib / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Asphalt / directed by Joe May | 1923 | DVD | |||
| C-V news (Hollywood promotional films: exhibitors' reel) | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Covered schooner / directed by Harry Edwards | 1923 | VHS | |||
| Dr. Dolittle: a Trip to Africa / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Dr. Dolittle: Lion's den / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Felix in Hollywood / directed by Otto Messmer | 1923 | VHS | |||
| Frozen hearts / directed by Jay A. Howe | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Haldane of the Secret Service / directed by Harry Houdini | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Happy-go-luckies / directed by Paul Terry | 1923 | DVD | |||
| La roue = The wheel / directed by Abel Gance | 1923 | DVD | |||
| La voix du rossignol = The voice of the nightingale / directed by Ladislaw Starewicz | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Little church around the corner / directed by William A. Seiter | 1923 | VHS | |||
| Mother's joy / directed by Ralph Ceder | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Oranges and lemons / directed by George Jeske | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Our hospitality / directed by John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1923 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Paris qui dort = The crazy ray / directed by René Clair. | 1923 | 16mm | |||
| Regeneration (fragment of reel two) / directed by Richard Norman | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Roughest Africa / directed by Ralph Ceder | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Rudolph Valentino and his 88 American Beauties / directed by Fred Niblo. | 1923 | VHS | |||
| Salomé / directed by Charles Bryant | 1923 | DVD | DVD | ||
| Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination = Warning shadows - a noctural hallucination / directed by Arthur Robison | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Skylarking / directed by Roy Del Ruth | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Smiling Madame Beudet / directed by Germaine Dulac | 1923 | 16mm | |||
| The balloonatic / directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 1923 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| The copper beeches / directed by Adrien Caillard | 1923 | DVD | |||
| The covered wagon / directed by James Cruze | 1923 | VHS | |||
| The extra girl / directed by F. Richard Jones | 1923 | DVD | |||
| The extra girl / directed by F. Richard Jones | 1923 | VHS | |||
| The hunchback of Notre Dame / directed by Wallace Worsley | 1923 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The love nest / directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline | 1923 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| The shock / directed by Lambert Hillyer | 1923 | VHS | |||
| The soilers / directed by Ralph Ceder | 1923 | DVD | |||
| The song of love / directed by Frances Marion and Chester M. Franklin | 1923 | DVD | |||
| The white sister / directed by Henry King | 1923 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| Three ages / directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline | 1923 | VHS | DVD | DVD | |
| Where the North begins / directed by Chester M. Franklin | 1923 | VHS | |||
| White tiger / directed by Tod Browning. | 1923 | VHS | |||
| Why worry / directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 1923 | 16mm | |||
| Within the law / directed by Frank Lloyd | 1923 | DVD | |||
| Trailers for six lost films | 1923-1928 | DVD |
| Media | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media |
| A society sensation / directed by Paul Powell | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Aelita / directed by Yakov Protazanov. | 1924 | VHS | DVD | ||
| All night long / directed by Mack Sennett | 1924 | VHS | |||
| All wet / directed by Leo McCarey | 1924 | DVD | |||
| America: Love and sacrifice / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1924 | VHS | |||
| An auto nut / directed by Robert P. Kerr | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Andy's stump speech / directed by Norman Taurog | 1924 | DVD | |||
| April fool / Ralph Ceder | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Ballet mécanique / directed by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Bearded Valentino / Anonymous | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Captain January / directed by Edward F. Cline | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Conductor 1492 / directed by Frank Griffin | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs= The finances of the grand duke / directed by F. W. Murnau | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried / directed by Fritz Lang | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Entr'acte / directed by René Clair | 1924 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| Felix dopes it out / directed by Otto Messmer | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Felix gets the can / directed by Pat Sullivan | 1924 | 16mm | |||
| Her night of romance / directed by Sidney A. Franklin | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Kid speed / directed by Larry Semon | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Lizzies of the field / directed by Del Lord | 1924 | 16mm | |||
| Michael / directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Monsieur Beaucaire / directed by Sidney Olcott | 1924 | 16mm | |||
| Near Dublin / directed by Ralph Ceder | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Orlacs hände = The hands of Orlac / directed by Robert Wiene | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Papirosnit︠s︡a ot Mosselʹproma = The cigarette girl of Mosselprom / directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Pay or move / directed by Harry Edwards | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Peter Pan / directed by Herbert Brenon | 1924 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| Postage due / directed by George Jeske | 1924 | DVD | |||
| President Coolidge, taken on the White House grounds / Anonymous director | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Reno or bust / directed by Archie Mayo | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Romola / directed by Henry King | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Sherlock Jr. / directed by Buster Keaton | 1924 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Short kilts / directed by George Jeske | 1924 | DVD | |||
| The enchanted cottage / directed by John S. Robertson. | 1924 | 16mm | |||
| The fighting coward / directed by James Cruze | 1924 | VHS | |||
| The golf bug / directed by Herman C. Raymaker | 1924 | VHS | |||
| The lighthouse by the sea / directed by Mal St. Clair. | 1924 | DVD | |||
| The mysterious mystery! / directed by Robert F. McGowan | 1924 | DVD | |||
| The navigator / directed by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp | 1924 | VHS | DVD | ||
| The saga of Gösta Berling / directed by Mauritz Stiller | 1924 | DVD | |||
| The speed spook / directed by Charles Hines | 1924 | VHS | |||
| The thief of Bagdad: an Arabian nights fantasy / directed by Raoul Walsh | 1924 | 16mm | DVD | ||
| The white shadow / directed by Graham Cutts | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Thumbelina / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Venus of the South Seas / directed by James R. Sullivan | 1924 | VHS | |||
| Wedding bells / directed by Harry Edwards | 1924 | VHS | |||
| West of Hot Dog / directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Zeb vs. paprika / directed by Ralph Ceder | 1924 | DVD | |||
| Herbert Dawley's Biblical films: unedited footage | 1924-1928 | ||||
| Rev. S.S. Jones home movies / directed and photographed by Reverend Solomon Sir Jones | 1924-1928 | DVD |