Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Silent Cinema: 128 Films to Rent
- Mark of Zorro, The (1920)
- Dir. Fred Niblo
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks
- First outing for the Californian masked righter–of–wrongs established Douglas Fairbanks' swashbuckling screen persona in the public eye.…
- Saphead, The (+ The High Sign, One Week) (1920)
- Dir. Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith
Feat. Buster Keaton
- The film that launched Buster Keaton's career as a leading man features his debut starring role in a feature film as the simple–minded son of a…
- Way Down East (1920)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
- A prototypical Hollywood melodrama, detailing the innocence, corruption and eventual fate of Lillian Gish in 19th century America. Expertly…
- Arbuckle and Keaton - Volume 1 (1919)
- Dir. Fatty Arbuckle
Feat. Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle
- Five rare ‘two–reelers’ from the 1910s display two genius comedians in fine style: the mature routines of Roscoe…
- Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo (1919-1929)
- Dir. Erich von Stroheim, James Cruze
Feat. Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Sam De Grasse…
- Two feature films on one disc featuring visionary Austrian–American silent filmmaker and actor Erich von Stroheim.
Blind Husbands (directed…
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Robert Barthelmess
- D.W. Griffiths low–key lyric tragedy, set in 19th century London's docklands, with Lillian Gish at her most otherworldly.
As the…
- Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
- Dir. Robert Wiene
Feat. Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt
- An evil doctor uses a sleepwalker to carry out his barbarous fantasies in this seminal foray into horror and expressionist cinema. Notable for its…
- Der Golem (1919)
- Dir. Paul Wegener
Feat. Paul Wegener
- On the cobbled streets of 16th Century Prague, a Rabbi rescues the Jews from anti–semitic rule by invoking the clay monstrosity from Jewish…
- Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 4 (The Kid Brother, Bumping into Broadway, Billy Blazes Esq.) (1919-1927)
- Dir. Ted Wilde, J A Howe, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes THE KID BROTHER, one of Lloyd's best comedies; he plays an unappreciated sibling in a family…
- Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 9 (Ask Father, From Hand to Mouth, The Freshman) (1919-1925)
- Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Three classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes THE FRESHMAN, one of Lloyd's best films, about the trials of campus life; and two shorts.