Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

Directed by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese • Silent • 1920 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova

Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance for one of the most adventurous films of ear...

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • Silent • 1926 • Russia • Russian with English intertitles
Starring Aleksandr Antono, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece remains one of the most influential silent films of all time. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on...

Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman • Comedy • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

Buster Keaton’s “The General” is not simply one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any era. In restaging ...

Directed by G. W. Pabst • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

G. W. Pabst’s provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in which the naive daughter (Louise Brooks) of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by...

Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1924 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Emil Jannings

One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh” stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved ...

Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hans Sternberg

This 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang follows a young woman who confronts the personification of Death in...

Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1922 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim

A cornerstone of horror, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" remains an unsettling and chilling experience steeped in the haunting style of German Expressionis...

Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1926 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

Mobilizing full studio resources, F.W. Murnau orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's “Faust” that ranks among the greatest achievements of German silent c...

Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Arnold Korff, Lotar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann

F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. A hunting party is interrupted by the arri...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • Silent • 1919 • German • German with English intertitles
Starring Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke

Made in Germany by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, this 1919 film follows an oyster tycoon who decides to find a prince to marry his daughter, but things d...

Directed by Joe May • Silent • 1930 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich

Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era. A strait-laced traffic co...

Directed by Robert Wiene • Silent • 1920 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Freidrich Feher

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” jolted the post-war masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. Director Robert Wiene a...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Paul Robeson, Marshall Rodgers, Lawrence Chenault

This bold and controversial film by pioneer independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux follows the path of an escaped convict who poses as a pastor in a small s...

Directed by Buster Keaton • Comedy • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Dwyer

Presented in a new restoration, this masterpiece showcases Buster Keaton’s genius for super-sized slapstick. “Seven Chances” tells the story of an eligible young bac...