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Silent Film Research at the Library for the Performing Arts: Films - 1925-1929

A guide to the films and Special Collections held at the Library for the Performing Arts that document the Silent Film era.

Index to Films

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. 

Index to Films - 1925

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        

Index to Films - 1926

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          

Index to Films - 1927

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        

Index to Films - 1928

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    

Index to Films - 1929

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