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 | Media |
Buster Keaton character studies | mid-1920s | DVD | ||||
Alice's egg plant / directed by Walt Disney | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Are parents people? / directed by Malcolm St. Clair | 1925 | VHS | ||||
At 3:25 / directed by René Clair | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Body and soul / directed by Oscar Micheaux | 1925 | 16mm | DVD | |||
Bronenosets Potemkin = The Battleship Potemkin / directed by Sergei Eisenstein | 1925 | 16mm | DVD | DVD | DVD | |
Butter fingers / directed by Del Lord | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Chakhmatna︠i︡a gor︠i︡achka = Chess fever / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin i Nikolai Shpikovsky | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Chasing the chaser / directed by Stan Laurel and F. Richard Jones | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Chess fever / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Clash of the wolves / directed by Noel M. Smith | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Cobra / directed by Joseph Henabery | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Curses / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache = Kriemhild's revenge / directed by Fritz Lang | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Don Q, son of Zorro / directed by Donald Crisp | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Dr. Pyckle & Mr. Pride / directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Du skal ære din hustru = Master of the house / directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Freshman / directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Frogland / directed by Ladislas Starevitch | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Go west / directed by Buster Keaton | 1925 | VHS | DVD | |||
Grass / directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 1925 | 16mm | DVD | |||
Half a man / directed by Joe Rock and Harry Sweet | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Her sister from Paris / directed by Sidney A. Franklin | 1925 | DVD | ||||
His wooden wedding / directed by Leo McCarey | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Hop to it! / directed by Ted Burnstein | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Inklings / directed by Dave Fleischer | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Isn't life terrible / directed by Leo McCarey | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Jack the giant killer / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1925 | |||||
Lady Windermere's fan / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1925 | 16mm | DVD | |||
Merry widow / directed by Erich von Stroheim. | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
MGM studio tour / produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Miss Bluebeard / directed by Frank Tuttle | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Navy blue days / directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Odessa steps / directed by Sergei Eisenstein. | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Parisian love / directed by Louis Gasnier | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Rudolph Valnetino character studies | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Rudy [Valentino] meets cowboy star Roy Stewart | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Sally of the sawdust / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1925 | VHS | DVD | |||
Saturday afternoon / directed by Harry Edwards | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Seven chances / directed by Buster Keaton | 1925 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | |
Shore leave / directed by John S. Robinson. | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Should sailors marry? / directed by James Parrott and Jess Robbins | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Smouldering fires / directed by Clarence Brown | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Stachka = Strike / directed by Sergei Eisenstein | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
Stick around / directed by Ward Hayes | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Strike = Stachka / directed by Sergei Eisenstein | 1925 | DVD | DVD | |||
Tartuffe / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The circle / directed by Frank Borzage | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The eagle / directed by Clarence Brown | 1925 | 16mm | DVD | |||
The early bird / directed by Charles Hines | 1925 | VHS | DVD | |||
The gold rush / directed by Charlie Chaplin | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
The joyless street / directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 1925 | 16mm | VHS | |||
The lost world / directed by Harry O. Hoyt | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The movies / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The night club / directed by Frank Urson and Paul Iribe | 1925 | VHS | ||||
The perfect clown / directed by Fred Newmeyer | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The phantom of the opera / directed by Rupert Julian | 1925 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | VHS | DVD |
The plastic age / directed by Wesley Ruggles | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
The red kimona / directed by Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The road to yesterday / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The shining adventure / directed by Herbert Brenon | 1925 | VHS | ||||
The sleuth / directed by Joe Rock and Harry Sweet | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The snow hawk / directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock | 1925 | DVD | ||||
The unchastened woman / directed by James Young | 1925 | VHS | ||||
The vanishing American / directed by George B. Seitz | 1925 | VHS | ||||
The wizard of Oz / directed by Larry Semon | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Tumbleweeds / directed by King Baggot | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Variety / directed by E. A. Dupont | 1925 | 16mm | ||||
When love grows cold (trailer) / directed by Harry O. Hoyt | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Wild horse mesa / directed by George B. Seitz. | 1925 | VHS | ||||
Yes, yes, Nanette / directed by Clarence Hennecke and Stan Laurel | 1925 | DVD | ||||
Cockeyed: gems from the memory of a nutty cameraman / directed by Alvin Knechtel | 1925 circa | DVD | ||||
Gus Visser and his singing duck | 1925 circa | DVD |
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media | Media | Media |
45 minutes from Hollywood / directed by Fred Guiol | 1926 | DVD | |||||
A page of madness / directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Along came Auntie / directed by Fred Guiol and Richard Wallace | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Battling butler / directed by Buster Keaton | 1926 | VHS | DVD | ||||
Behind the front / directed by A. Edward Sutherland | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Bromo and Juliet / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Brown of Harvard / directed by Jack Conway | 1926 | DVD | |||||
By the law / directed by Lev Kuleshov | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Crazy like a fox / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Dancing mothers / directed by Herbert Brenon | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Der heilige Berg = The holy mountain / directed by Arnold Fanck | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed = The adventures of Prince Achmed / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1926 | DVD | DVD | ||||
Dog shy / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Don Juan / directed by Alan Crosland | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Early advertising films: Buy an electric refrigerator | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Ella Cinders / directed by Alfred E. Green | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1926 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | |
Fool's luck / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Grandma's child / directed by Scott Pembroke | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Hands up! / directed by Clarence Badger | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Happy days / directed by Arvid Gillstrom | 1926 | DVD | |||||
International newsreel | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Kid Boots / directed by Frank Tuttle. | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Kiki / directed by Clarence Brown | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Long fliv the king / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Love 'em and leave 'em / directed by Frank Tuttle | 1926 | 16mm | DVD | ||||
Metropolis / directed by Fritz Lang | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Mighty like a moose / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Miss Mend: an adventure serial in three parts / directed by Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Mother / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Movie lovers' contest (Hollywood promotional films: exhibitors' reel) | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Mum's the word / directed by Leo McCarey | 1926 | DVD | |||||
My stars / directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Nell Gwyn / directed by Herbert Wilcox | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Old Ironsides / directed by James Cruze | 1926 | 16mm | DVD | ||||
Ranson's folly / directed by Sidney Olcott | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Saturday afternoon / directed by Harry Edwards | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
Skinner's dress suit / directed by William A. Seiter | 1926 | VHS | |||||
Slick sleuths / directed by Charles R. Bowers and Bud Fisher | 1926 | DVD | |||||
Sparrows / directed by William Beaudine | 1926 | VHS | DVD | ||||
Ten nights in a bar room / directed by Roy Calnek | 1926 | 16mm | DVD | ||||
Tentacles of the North / directed by Louis Chaudet. | 1926 | VHS | |||||
The bells / directed by James Young | 1926 | VHS | |||||
The black pirate / directed by Albert Parker | 1926 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | |||
The duchess of Buffalo / directed by Sidney Franklin | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
The flute of Krishna / directed by Rouben Mamoulian | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The flying ace / directed by Richard E. Norman | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The general / directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman | 1926 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
The holy mountain / directed by Arnold Fanck | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The lure of the Labrador / directed by Varick Frissell | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The Passaic textile strike / directed by Samuel Russak | 1926 | 16mm | |||||
The Passaic textile strike: Prologue / directed by Samuel Russak | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The son of the sheik / directed by George Fitzmaurice | 1926 | DVD | |||||
The sorrows of Satan / directed by D.W. Griffith | 1926 | VHS | |||||
The strong man / directed by Frank Capra | 1926 | VHS | VHS | ||||
The toll of the sea / directed by Chester M. Franklin | 1926 | VHS | |||||
The Volga boatman / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1926 | VHS | DVD | ||||
Tramp, tramp, tramp / directed by Harry Edwards | 1926 | VHS | DVD | ||||
Virginian types: Blue Ridge mountaineers / Anonymous director | 1926 circa | DVD |
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media | Media | Media |
A gentleman of Paris / directed by Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Bed and sofa / directed by Abram Room | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Captain Salvation / directed by John S. Robertson | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Chang / directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 1927 | 16mm | DVD | |||
College / directed by James W. Horne | 1927 | 16mm | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD |
Crazy to act / directed by Earl Rodney | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney = The love of Jeanne Ney / directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 1927 | VHS | DVD | |||
Drama deluxe / directed by Norman Taurog | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Dress parade / directed by Donald Crisp. | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Ghosts before breakfast / directed by Hans Richter. | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Girl with a hatbox / directed by Boris Barnet | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Haunted spooks / directed by Hal Roach and Alf Goulding | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Insect couple / directed by Herbert M. Dawley | 1927 | DVD | ||||
It / directed by Clarence Badger | 1927 | DVD | ||||
KoKo chops suey / directed by Dave Fleischer | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Kone︠t︡s Sankt-Peterburga = The end of St. Petersburg / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller | 1927 | 16mm | DVD | |||
Long pants / directed by Frank Capra | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Metropolis / directed by Fritz Lang | 1927 | VHS | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
Mine your business! / directed by John Tansey | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Mr. Wu / directed by William Nigh | 1927 | DVD | ||||
My best girl / directed by Sam Taylor | 1927 | 16mm | VHS | |||
Now you're talking / directed by Dave Fleischer | 1927 | DVD | ||||
October / directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Red raiders / directed by Albert Rogell | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Running wild / directed by Gregory La Cava | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Siren of the tropics / directed by Henri Étiévant and Mario Nalpas | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Steamboat Bill, Jr. / directed by Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
Sunrise: a song of two humans / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1927 | 16mm | DVD | |||
Tempest / directed by Sam Taylor | 1927 | DVD | ||||
The cat and the canary / directed by Paul Leni | 1927 | 16mm | ||||
The chess player / directed by Raymond Bernard | 1927 | DVD | ||||
The college hero / directed by Walter Lang. | 1927 | VHS | ||||
The fall of the Romanov dynasty / directed by Esther Shub Sovkino | 1927 | VHS | ||||
The fighting eagle / directed by Donald Crisp | 1927 | DVD | ||||
The gaucho / directed by F. Richard Jones | 1927 | DVD | ||||
The king of kings / directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 1927 | VHS | DVD | |||
The lodger: a story of the London fog / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1927 | DVD | DVD | DVD | ||
The ring / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1927 | DVD | DVD | |||
The show / directed by Waldemar Young | 1927 | DVD | ||||
The stuntman / directed by Larry Semon | 1927 | VHS | ||||
Uncle Tom's cabin / directed by Harry A. Pollard | 1927 | DVD | ||||
Underworld / directed by Josef von Sternberg | 1927 | DVD | Blu-Ray | |||
Upstream / directed by John Ford | 1927 | DVD | ||||
We're in the Navy now / directed by Edward Sutherland. | 1927 | VHS | ||||
White gold / directed by William K. Howard | 1927 | VHS |
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media |
A pair of tights / directed by Hal Yates | 1928 | 16mm | ||
A ship comes in / directed by William K. Howard | 1928 | VHS | ||
A woman of affairs / directed by Clarence Brown | 1928 | VHS | DVD | |
Arsenal: istoriko-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ ėpopei︠a︡ = The arsenal : a revolutionary epic / directed by Alexander Dovzhenko | 1928 | DVD | ||
Bare knees / directed by Eric C. Kenton | 1928 | VHS | ||
Beggars of life / directed by William A. Wellman | 1928 | DVD | ||
Borderline / directed by Kenneth MacPherson | 1928 | 16mm | ||
Burning daylight / directed by Richard A. Rowland | 1928 | VHS | ||
Captain Swagger / directed by Edward H. Griffith | 1928 | VHS | ||
Children of all lands / directed by Madeline Brandeis | 1928 | VHS | ||
Comicalamities / directed by Otto Messmer | 1928 | VHS | ||
Eleven P.M. / directed by Richard Maurice | 1928 | DVD | ||
Feel my pulse / directed by Gregory La Cava | 1928 | 16mm | DVD | |
Fooling casper / directed by Earl Montgomery | 1928 | DVD | ||
Four sons / directed by John Ford | 1928 | DVD | ||
Geschlecht in Fesseln = Sex in chains / directed by William Dieterle | 1928 | DVD | ||
Greetings by George Bernard Shaw | 1928 | DVD | ||
Hula / directed by Victor Fleming | 1928 | VHS | ||
Ko-Ko lamps Aladdin / directed by Dave Fleischer | 1928 | 16mm | ||
KoKo's earth control / directed by Max Fleischer. | 1928 | 16mm | ||
La chute de la maison Usher = The fall of the house of Usher / directed by Jean Epstein | 1928 | DVD | ||
La coquille et le clergyman = Seashell and the clergyman / directed by Germaine Dulac | 1928 | DVD | ||
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc = Passion of Joan of Arc / directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 | 16mm | DVD | DVD |
Linda / directed by Dorothy Davenport | 1928 | 16mm | ||
Lonesome / directed by Paul Fejos | 1928 | DVD | ||
Potomok Chingis-Khana / directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1928 | 16mm | ||
Sadie Thompson / directed by Raoul Walsh | 1928 | VHS | DVD | |
Simba / directed by Martin and Osa Johnson | 1928 | VHS | VHS | |
Speedy / story and scenario by John Grey, Lex Neal, Howard Rogers, Jay How directed by Ted Wilde | 1928 | DVD | ||
Spies / directed by Fritz Lang | 1928 | DVD | DVD | |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. / directed by Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton | 1928 | DVD | VHS | |
Sure-locked homes / directed by Otto Messmer | 1928 | DVD | ||
The cameraman / directed by Edward Sedgwick | 1928 | DVD | ||
The crowd / directed by King Vidor | 1928 | VHS | ||
The death-feigning Chinaman / directed by Lotte Reiniger | 1928 | DVD | ||
The docks of New York / directed by Josef von Sternberg | 1928 | VHS | DVD | |
The fall of the house of Usher (French intertitles) / directed by James Sibley Watson, Jr. | 1928 | 16mm | ||
The fall of the house of Usher / directed by James Sibley Watson, Jr. | 1928 | 16mm | ||
The farmer's wife / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1928 | VHS | DVD | DVD |
The fireman of the Folies Bergères / Anonymous director | 1928 | DVD | ||
The garden of Eden / directed by Louis Milestone | 1928 | DVD | ||
The last command / directed by Josef von Sternberg | 1928 | 16mm | DVD | Blu-Ray |
The life and death of 9413: a Hollywood extra / directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich. | 1928 | 16mm | ||
The little match girl / directed by Jean Renoir and Jean Tédesco | 1928 | 16mm | ||
The love charm / directed by Howard M. Mitchell | 1928 | DVD | ||
The swilin' racket / directed by Varick Frissell | 1928 | DVD | ||
The Viking (outtakes) / directed by Roy William Neill | 1928 | DVD | ||
Themes & variations / directed by Germaine Dulac | 1928 | 16mm | ||
There it is / directed by Harold L. Muller and Charles R. Bowers | 1928 | DVD | ||
Two tars / directed by James Parrott | 1928 | 16mm | ||
Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage / directed by Zora Neale Hurston | 1928 | DVD | ||
Zvenigora / directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 1928 | 16mm |
Title | Date | Media | Media | Media |
A cottage on Dartmoor / directed by Anthony Asquith | 1929 | DVD | ||
À propos de Nice / directed by Jean Vigo | 1929 | 16mm | ||
A throw of dice: a romance of India / directed by F. Osten | 1929 | DVD | ||
Charlatan / directed by George Melford | 1929 | VHS | ||
City girl / directed by F.W. Murnau | 1929 | DVD | ||
De tolv Klinger = The Twelve Swords / directed by Paul Fejos. | 1929 | DVD | ||
Desert nights / directed by William Nigh | 1929 | DVD | ||
Diary of a lost girl / directed by G.W. Pabst | 1929 | VHS | DVD | |
Die Büchse der Pandora: Variationen auf das Thema Frank Wedekinds Lulu = Pandora's box : variations on the theme of Frank Wedekind's Lulu / directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 1929 | 16mm | DVD | |
Eternal love / directed by Ernst Lubitsch | 1929 | DVD | ||
Ethnographic films / directed by Zora Neale Hurston | 1929 | DVD | ||
Evangeline / directed by Edwin Carewe | 1929 | VHS | DVD | |
Frau im Mond = Woman in the moon / directed by Fritz Lang. | 1929 | DVD | ||
His angel child / directed by Eddie Baker | 1929 | DVD | ||
KoKo's conquest / directed by Dave Fleischer | 1929 | 16mm | ||
KoKo's hypnotism / directed by Dave Fleischer. | 1929 | 16mm | ||
Linda / directed by Mrs. Wallace Reid | 1929 | VHS | DVD | |
Chelovek s kino-apparatom zapisʹ na plenke v 6-i rolikakh (otryvok iz dnevnika kino-operatora) = The man with the movie camera : a record on celluloid in 3 reels (an excerpt from the diary of a cameraman) / directed by Dziga Vertov | 1929 | 16mm | DVD | DVD |
Oblomok imperii = Fragment of an empire / directed by Fridrikh Ėrmler | 1929 | 16mm | ||
Our modern maidens / directed by Jack Conway | 1929 | DVD | ||
Piccadilly / directed by Ewald André Dupont | 1929 | DVD | ||
Privideniye, kotoroye ne vozvrashchayetsya = The ghost that never returns = Fantome qui ne revient pas / directed by Abram Room | 1929 | 16mm | ||
Queen Kelly / directed by Erich von Stroheim | 1929 | 16mm | DVD | |
Rain / directed by Joris Ivens with Mannus Franken | 1929 | 16mm | ||
Skyscraper symphony /directed by Robert Florey | 1929 | DVD | ||
Spite marriage / directed by Edward Sedgwick | 1929 | DVD | ||
Staroe i novoe = The general line / directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1929 | 16mm | ||
Strong boy (preview) / directed by William Fox | 1929 | DVD | ||
Tagebuch einer verlorenen = Diary of a lost girl / directed by G. W. Pabst | 1929 | DVD | ||
The Drake Case / directed by Edward Laemmle | 1929 | VHS | ||
The iron mask / directed by Allan Dwan. | 1929 | DVD | ||
The kiss / directed by Jacques Feyder | 1929 | VHS | ||
The lodger: a story of the London fog / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1929 | 16mm | ||
The Manxman / directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 1929 | DVD | ||
The scar of shame / directed by Frank Peregini | 1929 | VHS | DVD | |
The single standard / directed by John S. Robertson | 1929 | DVD | ||
Un chien Andalou / directed by Louis Buñuel | 1929 | 16mm | DVD | |
Woman in the moon / directed by Fritz Lang | 1929 | DVD | ||
Exhibition reel of two color films | 1929 circa | DVD |