The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Show People
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Steamboat Willie
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
The Cameraman
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
The Circus
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
The Man Who Laughs
Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.
Two Tars
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
Ghosts Before Breakfast
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Lonesome
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
The Wind
A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
Champagne
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Street Angel
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
The Crowd
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
The Last Command
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Allan arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
The Starfish
A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
Speedy
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Spies
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
The Docks of New York
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
The Seashell and the Clergyman
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.
Storm Over Asia
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
The Farmer's Wife
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Easy Virtue
Nobility in fiction · Gender identity in fiction
Orlando
World War, 1914-1918 · Fiction
Im Westen nichts Neues
Christian life, fiction · British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Pilgrim's Progress
Fiction · Historical Fiction
The Master Mind of Mars
Facsimiles · Manuscripts
Finnegans Wake
Crimes against · Detective and mystery stories
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Fiction · Forsyte family (Fictitious characters)
Swan Song (Forsyte Chronicles)
Social life and customs · Manners and customs
Decline and Fall
Fiction · Charlie Chan (Fictitious character)
Behind that curtain
Fiction · History
Belshazzar
Philo Vance (Fictitious character) · Private investigators
The Greene Murder Case
Lesbians · Fiction
The well of loneliness
Fiction in English · Nevada, fiction
Nevada
Fiction, fantasy, general · Fiction, general
Seven Footprints to Satan
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · English Authors
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Fiction · Great Britain
The Runagates Club
Fiction · Private investigators
The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Animals · Children's stories, English
Doctor Dolittle in the moon