Best Silent Movies by Director
2573
160
1922
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts
Comedy / Short / Western / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
160
1921
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2193
121
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Charles Kent
Charles Kent, William Shea, Hal Reid, Maurice Costello
Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1911
Charles Kent
Helen Gardner, William V. Ranous, John Bunny, Harry Northrup, Alec B. Francis
Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2605
165
1962
Paul Killiam, Harvey Cort, Saul J. Turell
Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Mack Sennett
Documentary / Action / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2807
196
1922
Burton L. King
Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery
Mystery / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
1449
59
1921
Henry King
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence
Drama / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2002
98
1926
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe
Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2310
133
1925
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, Beatrix Pryor, Lois Moran
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1924
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
177
1928
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa, Ippei Sohma, Misao Seki
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2695
178
1926
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2756
186
1919
David Kirkland
Constance Talmadge, Belle Daube, Jack Kane, Conway Tearle, Jeanette Horton
Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1911
James Kirkwood, George Loane Tucker
Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, William H. Brown, Lottie Pickford, James Kirkwood
Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1914
James Kirkwood
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Marshall Neilan, Gertrude Robinson
Short / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2779
188
1929
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofya Magarill
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1924
Lev Kuleshov
Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Lev Kuleshov
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Lev Kuleshov, Leonid Obolensky, A. Reich
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2792
191
1926
Lev Kuleshov
Alexandra Khokhlova, Sergei Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
Drama / Crime
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2756
186
1926
Gregory La Cava
W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert, Marcia Harris
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1927
Gregory La Cava
W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan, Frederick Burton
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Carl Lamac
Karel Noll, Antonie Nedosinská, Carl Lamac, Betty Kysilková
Comedy
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
25
1
1927
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
393
19
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
1140
43
1924
Fritz Lang
Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy / War / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
1340
53
1924
Fritz Lang
Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
2007
101
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2038
108
1921
Fritz Lang
Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fantasy / Romance / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Fritz Lang
Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensfeldt, Harry Frank
Adventure / Action / Crime / Serial
Germany
German (Silent)
2792
191
1924
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Kiki of Montparnasse
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2222
124
1914
Henry Lehrman
Charles Chaplin, Henry Lehrman, Frank D. Williams, Billy Jacobs
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1914
Henry Lehrman
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Kirtley, Alice Davenport, Henry Lehrman, Minta Durfee
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Henry Lehrman
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Nick Cogley, Fred Mace, Hank Mann, Ford Sterling
Comedy / Short / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1914
Henry Lehrman
Edgar Kennedy, Virginia Kirtley, Hank Mann, Harry McCoy, Al St. John, Mack Swain
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
1973
94
1927
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
177
1927
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor
Horror / Mystery / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1923
Robert Z. Leonard
Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Robert Frazer, Edmund Burns, Jean Hersholt
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Edward LeSaint
Tom Mix, Colleen Moore, Frank Clark, Lule Warrenton, Sid Jordan, Pat Chrisman
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2789
189
1928
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2792
191
1924
Marcel L'Herbier
Georgette Leblanc, Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte
Adventure / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Max Linder, Lucien Nonguet
Max Linder, Léon Belières, Charles de Rochefort, Gabrielle Lange
Short / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Max Linder
Max Linder, Martha Mansfield
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2484
148
1924
Frank Lloyd
Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace MacDonald, Marc McDermott
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1927
Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson, Norman Trevor, Hedda Hopper
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
177
1920
Frank Lloyd
Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Maude Louis
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Frank Lloyd
William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary, Herschel Mayall, Rosita Marstini
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1921
Frank Lloyd
J. Frank Glendon, Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, E. Alyn Warren, Margaret McWade
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2821
199
1922
Frank Lloyd
Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Harold Lloyd, J. Farrell MacDonald
Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison, Bebe Daniels, J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd
Short / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1975
95
1925
Ernst Lubitsch
Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2159
117
1927
Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
German (Silent)
2321
134
1923
Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh
Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2507
153
1924
Ernst Lubitsch
Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou
Comedy / Detective
USA
English (Silent)
2507
153
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2511
154
1922
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova
History / Drama / Epic / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2553
159
1921
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2666
174
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Max Kronert
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Ernst Lubitsch
Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger, Myrna Loy
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2792
191
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein
Comedy
Germany
German (Silent)
2821
199
1925
Ernst Lubitsch
Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow, Willard Louis
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2612
167
1895
Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
Short / Documentary
France
French (Silent)
2553
159
1895
Louis Lumière
François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Comedy / Short
France
French (Silent)
2580
162
1895
Louis Lumière
Documentary / Short
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Gustav Machatý
Eva Byronova, Jan W. Speerger, Miroslav Paul, Sasa Dobrovolná
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Max Mack
Albert Bassermann, Emmerich Hanus, Nelly Ridon, Hanni Weisse, Leon Resemann
Drama / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Henry MacRae
Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard, Fred Starr, Virginia Kraft, Ivor McFadden, James Cole
Action / Adventure / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2390
139
2000
Guy Maddin
Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Greg Klymkiw
Short / Experimental
Canada
English (Silent)
2756
186
1913
Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser
William Garwood, Marie Eline, Riley Chamberlin
Crime / Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
E.A. Martin
George Fawcett, Bessie Eyton, Frank Campeau, Tom Mix, William Ryno
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1914
Nino Martoglio
Giovanni Grasso, Maria Carmi, Virginia Balestrieri, Vittorina Moneta
Drama
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2511
154
1929
Joe May
Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2740
182
1928
Joe May
Lars Hanson, Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo, Theodor Loos
Drama / War
Germany
German (Silent)
2601
164
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe, Charles Clary, Gale Henry, Malcolm Denny
Family / Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2601
164
1928
Leo McCarey, Fred Guiol
Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Gladys Hulette, Lillian Leighton, Frank Brownlee, Oliver Hardy
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Walter James, William Courtright, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Stuart Holmes, Mildred June, Josephine Crowell, William Orlamond
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1927
Leo McCarey
Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Jesse De Vorska, Lillian Elliott, James Finlayson
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Oliver Hardy, Lon Poff, Leo Willis, Fay Wray
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Mildred Harris, Vivien Oakland, Syd Crossley, Rolfe Sedan
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield, Jane Sherman, Buddy the Dog
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2222
124
1914
Winsor McCay
George McManus, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan, Roy L. McCardell, Winsor McCay
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1918
Winsor McCay
Animation / Short / Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1911
Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton
John Bunny, Winsor McCay, George McManus
Short / Animation / Documentary / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1906
Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter
Jack Brawn
Short / Fantasy / Comedy / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Robert F. McGowan, Tom McNamara
Jack Davis, Lincoln Stedman, Ernest Morrison, Charles Stevenson, Peggy Cartwright
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2860
206
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2511
154
1920
George Melford
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Julienne Scott, Irving Cummings, Tom Forman, Jean Ac
Comedy / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1921
George Melford
Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, Frank Butler
Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1916
George Melford
Mae Murray, Wallace Reid, Tom Forman, Ronald Bradbury, Raymond Hatton, James Neill
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
George Melford
Dorothy Dalton, Charles Brinley, Emil Jorgenson, Rudolph Valentino, Maude Wayne
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1911
Gaston Méliès
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
1203
45
1902
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Farjaut, Kelm
Sci-Fi / Short / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2460
144
1907
Georges Méliès
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1901
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy, Bleuette Bernon
Short / Crime / Drama / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Fantasy / Drama / Horror
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1900
Georges Méliès
Jeanne d'Alcy, Bleuette Bernon, Georges Méliès
Short
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1903
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1902
Georges Méliès
Short / History
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1905
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1901
Georges Méliès
Rachel Gillet
Short / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1908
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1901
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Comedy / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2807
196
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
2807
196
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Comedy / Short / Fantasy / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2740
182
1929
Johannes Meyer
Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Biebrach, Ossip Darmatow
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1833
86
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2601
164
1925
Oscar Micheaux
Paul Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell, Lawrence Chenault
Drama / Crime / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1913
Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunte
Bert Williams, Sam Lucas, J. Leubrie Hill, Emma Reed, Billy Harper
Documentary / Music
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1906
Miles Brothers
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2709
179
1928
Lewis Milestone
Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1923
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kaoichi Katsuragi, Yoshisuke Koizumi, Haruko Sawamura, Kaichi Yamamoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2689
177
1925
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroki Hoshino, Yoshiko Okada
Short / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2689
177
1929
Kenji Mizoguchi
Reiji Ichiki, Takako Irie, Takaya Ito, Gunnosuke Kanahira, Shunji Kanda
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2756
186
1924
Lewis H. Moomaw
William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp, Eva Gordon
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1928
Harold Muller, Charles R. Bowers
Charles R. Bowers, Buster Brodie, Kathryn McGuire, Blue Washington
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Eugene Mullin, Charles Kent
Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles Kent, Florence Turner, Edith Storey, Tefft Johnson
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
49
2
1927
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
61
4
1922
F.W. Murnau
Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Horror / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
542
25
1924
F.W. Murnau
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1523
63
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2435
143
1930
F.W. Murnau
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Anne Shirley
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2511
154
1922
F.W. Murnau
Alfred Abel, Grete Berger, Lil Dagover, Lya De Putti, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2792
191
1926
F.W. Murnau
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2756
186
1920
Norbert A. Myles
Hunting Horse, Oscar Yellow Wolf, Esther LaBarre, White Parker, Wanada Parker
Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1924
Serge Nadejdine
Suzanne Bianchetti, Nicolas Rimsky, Pierre Labry, René Maupré
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2227
126
1918
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle, Marcia Manon
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport, Mahlon Hamilton
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1927
Marshall Neilan
Colleen Moore, Larry Kent, Hallam Cooley, Gwen Lee, Martha Mattox, Charles Giblyn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1966
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1966
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
970
36
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1665
71
1925
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, James Anderson, Hazel Keener
Comedy / Family / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2227
126
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2484
148
1922
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson, Dick Sutherland
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2518
155
1924
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Action / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1921
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland, Fred Guiol, Gus Leonard
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1331
52
1925
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
1975
95
1920
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell
Adventure / Romance / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2169
118
1926
Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott, Lionel Barrymore, Armand Kaliz
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2294
130
1922
Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner
Rosa Rosanova, Leo White, Rosita Marstini, Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1927
Fred Niblo
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Lilyan Tashman, Rose Dione, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1921
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1912
George Nichols
Marie Eline, Ethel Wright, James Cruze, Lila Chester, William Russell
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1918
William Nigh
Halbert Brown, Willard Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenck, George Ridell
War / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2792
191
1979
Andrew Noren
Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2601
164
1926
Richard E. Norman
Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts, Lions Daniels
Adventure / Crime / War / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1914
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand, Charles Bennett, Charley Chase, Harry McCoy, Eva Nelson, Al St. John
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2333
136
1923
Sidney Olcott
Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2490
150
1924
Sidney Olcott
Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2502
152
1923
Sidney Olcott
George Arliss, Alice Joyce, David Powell, Harry T. Morey, Jetta Goudal
Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor, Arthur Donaldson, J.P. McGowan
Drama / Short / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1912
Sidney Olcott
Robert Henderson-Bland, Percy Dyer, Gene Gauntier
Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1911
Barry O'Neil
George Lessey, Julia M. Taylor, Mrs. George W. Walters, David Andrada, Robert Halt
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1927
Wadad Orfi
Aziza Amir, Assia Dagher, Ahmed Galal, Wadad Orfi, Stephan Rosti
Documentary
Egypt
Arabic (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Richard Oswald
Liane Haid, Conrad Veidt, Albert Bassermann, Paul Wegener, Heinrich George
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1720
74
1932
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2666
174
1933
Yasujiro Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Chouko Iida
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2689
177
1928
Yasujiro Ozu
Junko Matsui, Kenji Oyama, Chishu Ryu, Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto
Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2792
191
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
222
14
1929
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
2142
116
1929
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2169
118
1925
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Valeska Gert, Werner Krauss, Einar Hanson, Loni Nest
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2605
165
1927
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp, Brigitte Helm
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2756
186
1936
Edmund Padilla, Felix Padilla
Documentary
USA / Mexico
English (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Aleksandr Panteleyev
Pyotr Kirillov, Ursula Krug, Vladimir Maksimov, Yelena Chaika
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2756
186
1918
Ida May Park
Edward Cecil, Gladys Fox, Kenneth Harlan, Mary MacLaren, Louis Morrison
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1233
47
1926
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1927
Albert Parker
Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon, Ian Keith, Andrés de Segurola
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2006
100
1928
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Hill
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Bull Montana, Mickey Bennett, Louise Carver
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
1830
85
1914
Giovanni Pastrone
Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta, Gina Marangoni, Dante Testa, Umberto Mozzato
Adventure / Drama / Epic / Romance
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2807
196
1916
Stuart Paton
Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore, Jane Gail
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Fred Paul
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1920
George Pearson
Hugh E. Wright, Moyna MacGill, Betty Balfour, George Keene, Mabel Poulton
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1921
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1914
George Pearson
James Bragington, Fred Paul, Agnes Glynne, Henry Paulo, James Le Fre
Mystery / Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1916
George Pearson
Aurelio Sidney, J.L.V. Leigh, A. Caton Woodville, Marjorie Dunbar, M. Goujet
Adventure / Fantasy
UK
English (Silent)
2772
187
1931
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2689
177
1925
Léonce Perret
Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Comedy / History
USA
English (Silent)
2792
191
1913
Léonce Perret
Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1918
R.W. Phillips
Sam Robinson, Walter Brogsdale, Robert Duree, Samuel 'Sambo' Jacks, Yvonne Junior
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Wray Bartlett Physioc
Grace Darmond, Niles Welch, Herbert Fortier, Violet Axzelle, Charles Brandt
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
206
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Hay Plumb
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot, Walter Ringham, Adeleine Bourne
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2807
196
1917
Harry A. Pollard
Margarita Fischer, Monroe Salisbury, Kathleen Kirkham, Jack Mower, Joe Harris
Horror / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1924
Harry A. Pollard
Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace, William Austin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1924
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
1232
46
1903
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1903
Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming
Vivian Vaughan, Arthur White, James White
Short / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1914
Edwin S. Porter
Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford, Louise Dunlap
Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Edwin S. Porter, Joseph A. Golden
James O'Neill, Nance O'Neil, Murdock MacQuarrie, Hobart Bosworth
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1906
Edwin S. Porter
Kitty O'Neil, Walter Griswoll, H.L. Bascomb, W.R. Floyd, E.M. Leslie, N.B. Clarke
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford
James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence, Fraser Coalter
Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1905
Edwin S. Porter
Thomas H. Ince
Short / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1902
Edwin S. Porter
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1965
Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, John Spotton
Buster Keaton
Comedy / Short
Canada
English (Silent)
2418
141
1915
Frank Powell
Theda Bara, Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear, Edward José, May Allison
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Frank Powell
Henry B. Walthall, Jack Pickford, Florence Barker
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Paul Powell
Ethel Clayton, Charles Meredith, Mary Jane Irving, Anna Lehr, Walter McGrail
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Paul Powell
Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Helen Jerome Eddy, George Berrell
Family / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1918
Paul Powell
Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Alfred Allen, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1346
54
1926
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1381
56
1928
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2511
154
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1932
Vsevolod Pudovkin
A. Baturin, Mariya Belousova, A. Chekulayeva, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Romance
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2792
191
1925
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Vladimir Fogel, Anatoly Ktorov, Anna Zemtsova, Yuliy Rayzman
Comedy / Short
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1907
Teuvo Puro, Louis Sparre
Eero Kilpi, Teuvo Puro, Teppo Raikas, Alex Rautio, Jussi Snellman
Comedy / Short
Finland
Finnish (Silent)
2689
177
1928
Man Ray
Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2756
186
1897
Enoch J. Rector
James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Billy Madden, George Siler, John L. Sullivan
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2605
165
1921
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1918
Frank Reicher
Mary Boland, Lucy Cotton, Raymond Bloomer, Alfred Kappeler, Harris Gordon
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Max Reinhardt
Paul Davidson, Erika De Planque, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Mary Dietrich
Fantasy
Germany
German (Silent)
2410
140
1926
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Family
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Charles Reisner
Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy, Charles K. Gerrard
Comedy / War / Drama / Spy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
177
1926
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Jean Angelo, Werner Krauss, Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1928
Jean Renoir
Georges Pomiès, Michel Simon, Fridette Fatton, Félix Oudart
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2792
191
1927
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Pierre Braunberger, Johnny Huggins
Short / Comedy / Drama / Musical
France
French (Silent)
2792
191
1928
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Catherine Hessling, Amy Wells, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby
Short / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Harry Revier, George M. Merrick
Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Armand Cortes, Franklin B. Coates
Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1930
Florián Rey
Carmen Viance, Pedro Larrañaga, Pedro Pastor, Amelia Muñoz
Drama
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2418
141
1922
Lynn Reynolds
Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak
Western / Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1925
Lynn Reynolds, Wilfred Lucas
Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Seesel Ann Johnson, Arthur Morrison, Warner Oland
Western / Romance / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1915
Hal Roach
Harold Lloyd, Jane Novak, Roy Stewart
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1920
Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks, William Gillespie
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1921
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert, Oliver Hardy, Jack Lloyd, Owen Evans
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Vera Reynolds, Joy Winthrop, Mae Laurel
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1920
John S. Robertson
John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst, Cecil Clovelly, Nita Naldi
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1922
John S. Robertson
Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, David Torrence, Forrest Robinson
Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Arthur Robison
Lya De Putti, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eduard Rothauser, Fritz Greiner
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2524
156
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1908
91
1927
Walter Ruttmann
Documentary / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1926
A.W. Sandberg
Gösta Ekman, Karina Bell, Maurice de Féraudy, Robert Schmidt
Drama / Romance / Crime
Denmark
Danish (Silent)
2807
196
1927
Alfred Santell
Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee, Alma Bennett, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1929
Victor Schertzinger
Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Jane Novak, Larry Steers, Tully Marshall, Bernard Siegel
Western / Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2832
201
1967
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1965
Alan Schneider
Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1929
Eugen Schüfftan
Carl Balhaus, Alice Iversen, Theo Lingen, Aribert Mog, Hélène Robert
Short
Germany
German (Silent)
2803
194
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Harald Schwenzen
Hjalmar Fries, Hans Bille, Gerd Egede-Nissen, Rolf Christensen, Lillebil Ibsen
Drama
Norway
Norwegian (Silent)
2227
126
1926
Lewis Seiler
Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Action / Western / Detective / Crime / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
William A. Seiter
Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, Ben Hendricks Jr., E.J. Ratcliffe, Arthur Lake
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
William A. Seiter
Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Melbourne MacDowell, Frances Raymond, Otis Harlan
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1923
George B. Seitz
Pearl White, Warren William, Harry Semels, Tom McIntyre, William Nally
Serial / Action / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
George B. Seitz
Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., George Magrill
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1898
William Selig
Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2169
118
1914
Mack Sennett
Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Mack Sennett
Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Fred Mace
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Mack Sennett
Ford Sterling, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Avery, Bobby Dunn, George Jeske, Hank Mann
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Mack Sennett
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Mack Sennett
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Hank Mann, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Al St. John
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Mack Sennett
Mabel Normand, Mae Busch, Edward Dillon, Fred Mace, Mary Maxwell, Mack Sennett
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1921
Harold M. Shaw
George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath, Christine Rayner, Teddy Arundell, Norman Thorpe
Comedy
UK
English (Silent)
2752
184
1912
Dorothy G. Shore
Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1918
Scott Sidney
Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham, George B. French
Action / Adventure / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
1883
89
1930
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
1775
79
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1852
88
1921
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Drama / Fantasy
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2093
111
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2615
168
1913
Victor Sjöström
Hilda Borgström, Aron Lindgren, Erik Lindholm
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2657
173
1917
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, August Falck, Bergliot Husberg
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Victor Sjöström
Tore Svennberg, Tora Teje, Richard Lund, Renée Björling
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Victor Sjöström
Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker
Drama / Romance / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Gösta Ekman, Lili Bech, Gunnar Bohman, John Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Paul Sloane
Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Robert Edeson, Snitz Edwards, Toby Claude
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Paul Sloane
Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard, William Powell
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1916
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Marie Walcamp, C. Norman Hammond, Tyrone Power Sr.
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2644
171
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1926
Dick Smith
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1956
Harry Smith
Short / Animation / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1925
Noel M. Smith
June Marlowe, Rin Tin Tin, Charles Farrell, Heinie Conklin
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot
Short / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot, Owen Moore
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Malcolm St. Clair
Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor, Lawrence Grant, George Beranger, Duke Peter
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Short / Animation / Comedy
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Animation / Short / Fantasy / Family
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2553
159
1920
Mauritz Stiller
Gucken Cederborg, Carl Wallin, Vilhelm Bryde, John Lindlöf, Carina Ari
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2553
159
1917
Mauritz Stiller
Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Albin Lavén
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
177
1924
Mauritz Stiller
Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson
Drama / Romance / Religion
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2858
205
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
177
1922
Jerome Storm
John Gilbert, Barbara Bedford, Barbara La Marr, Herschel Mayall, Bob Kortman
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1919
Jerome Storm
Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley, Otto Hoffman, Jack Nelson
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1921
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1930
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Lingyu Ruan
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2860
206
1933
Yu Sun
Zhanfei Gao, Li-li Li, Juanjuan Ye, Congmei Yuan
Drama
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2807
196
1926
A. Edward Sutherland
W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1975
95
1916
Charles Swickard, William S. Hart, Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Clara Williams, Jack Standing
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1906
Charles Tait
Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Bella Cola, Vera Linden, Frank Mills, Ollie Wilson
Biography / Drama
Australia
English (Silent)
2511
154
1926
Sam Taylor
Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd, DeWitt Jennings, Harry Myers
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1927
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2546
158
1926
Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Jim Mason, Paul Weigel
Comedy / Romance / Religion / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1920
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
George Terwilliger
Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing, Carl Miller
Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
George Terwilliger
Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Evangeline Russell, Julia Hurley, Nick Thompson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2418
141
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Lillian Cook, Edwin E. Reed
Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2490
150
1917
Maurice Tourneur
Mary Pickford
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2582
163
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1923
Maurice Tourneur
Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver, Cyril Chadwick
Drama / Romance / Religion / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1917
Maurice Tourneur
Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook, Kathryn Browne-Decker, Edward Roseman
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1913
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, James Prior, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby, Arthur Ricketts, H.P. Owen
Comedy / Short
UK / USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1912
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge, William R. Dunn
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1966
Mary J. Tsosie, Maxine Tsosie
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2222
124
1913
George Loane Tucker
Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore, William Welsh
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1916
George Loane Tucker
Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro, Marga La Rubia
Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1919
George Loane Tucker
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Joseph J. Dowling, J.M. Dumont, Elinor Fair
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
Otis Turner
Patrick Long, Johnnie Mullens, Charles Fuqua, Henry Grammar, Tom Mix
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1910
unknown
John Bunny, Kate Price
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1914
unknown
Fred Evans
Comedy / Short
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1912
unknown
Vinnie Burns, Lillian DeLesque, Nat C. Goodwin, Stuart Holmes, Jack Hopkins
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1910
unknown
James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1944
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1927
unknown
Carter DeHaven, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
unknown
Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, Vola Vale
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1917
unknown
Pedro León
Documentary / Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
2007
unknown
Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard, Poodles Hanneford, Hairbreadth Harry, Jimmy Aubrey
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1929
W.S. Van Dyke
Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2756
186
1913
George Veditz
George Veditz
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
81
6
1929
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
177
1926
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
532
24
1925
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
2066
110
1926
King Vidor
Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1928
King Vidor
Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2553
159
1924
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1921
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2305
132
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Drama | Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2807
196
1924
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
1299
51
1928
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
1427
57
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1589
67
1927
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1925
Josef von Sternberg
George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson, Nellie Bly Baker
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2578
161
1929
Josef von Sternberg
Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2746
183
1929
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen
Pre-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
196
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Francis McDonald
Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1116
42
1922
Erich von Stroheim
Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1622
68
1929
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1808
83
1928
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1827
84
1925
Erich von Stroheim
Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1919
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1920
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George, Leo White, Mae Busch
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1928
Richard Wallace
Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Roscoe Karns, Emmett King
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
461
23
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
1989
97
1926
Raoul Walsh
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2017
102
1928
Raoul Walsh, William Cameron Menzies
Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Drama / Romance / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2330
135
1915
Raoul Walsh
Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson
Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2601
164
1928
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber
Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Dorthea House
Short / Horror / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2817
198
1926
Millard Webb
John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin, Sam Baker
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2477
146
1916
Lois Weber
Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting, Jessie Arnold, William V. Mong
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1363
55
1920
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch
Fantasy / Horror / Religion
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
196
1924
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1520
62
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2546
158
1928
William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
422
22
1920
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
2792
191
1923
Robert Wiene
Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova
Drama / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
177
1928
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2689
177
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
1096
41
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Irvin Willat
Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips, Tully Marshall
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1919
Irvin Willat
Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, James Gordon, Richard Wayne
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2689
177
1919
Chester Withey
Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles K. Gerrard, Stuart Holmes, Marc McDermott
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2756
186
1916
Marion Wong
Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1989
97
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2511
154
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2601
164
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
196
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
196
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2546
158
1970
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Jay Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2546
158
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2605
165
1965
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2689
177
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
