The Vault

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves. Valentino is a 1951 A

A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era. Film Fun is a 1955 comedy short film released in the United States that offers a nostalgic look at film clip

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. When Come

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history,

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant i

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson to write a m

A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herma

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications. A Slave of Love is a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. The Buster Keaton Story is a 1957 American biographical drama film that expl

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pi

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home. The film "Caicedo (with Po

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. Task: Write a factual

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollyw

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some

Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist. Salomé is a 1922

Arnie Cole and his wife Maud are an odd couple, having entered into the state of matrimony for purely practical reasons. However, their marriage of convenience

A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother. R

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers. Released in the year 2016, Lumiere! is a documentary and history film categorized under the genres of

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery. Chirurgie mécanique is a 1902 French short film directed by Gaston Velle, c

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon. A Nightmare is a motion picture released in 1896. The film explores

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually s

After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhou