Silent Film Sources

Sources for Silent Films on Laserdisc in the U.S.

Corinth Films

Sergei Eisenstein The Battleship Potemkin, October (with orchestral scores by Dimitri Shostakovich)

HBO Video

Out of Print: Broken Blossoms, The General, Our Hospitality, The Strong Man, The Thief of Bagdad

Kino on Video

Out of Print: Cabiria, Diary of a Lost Girl, Foolish Wives, The Joyless Street, The Outlaw and His Wife, Queen Kelly, Sadie Thompson
Box Sets

The Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Collection (The Gaucho, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers)

MGM/UA

MGM Silent Features With New Orchestral Scores Ben-Hur, The Big Parade, The Crowd, Flesh and the Devil, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Greed, In Old Heidelberg, The Wind, A Woman of Affairs
MGM Silent Features With Original Movietone Scores The Kiss, Our Dancing Daughters, Show People, The Single Standard, Spite Marriage, West of Zanzibar
MGM Silent Features With Piano Scores The Cameraman
Warner Bros. Films With Vitaphone Scores Don Juan
Warner Bros. Films With Vitaphone Scores and Talking Sequences The Jazz Singer, The Singing Fool
MGM Silent Features Announced (But Not Yet Released) Noah's Ark, Garbo Silents (Love, The Torrent, Wild Orchids), The Lon Chaney Collection (He Who Gets Slapped, The Unknown, Where East is East)

Media Home Entertainment

Chaplin Lost and Found: Keystone, Essanay I, Essanay II, Mutual I, Mutual II, Mutual III

Nostalgia Archive

Laurel and Hardy and Friends Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Volume Four, Volume Five, Volume Six, Volume Seven (Big Business, Do Detectives Think?), Volume Eight (Leave 'Em Laughing)
Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Volume Four

The Mary Pickford Company

Out of Print: Mary Pickford Shorts The Griffith Biographs
Out of Print: Mary Pickford Features Little Annie Rooney, My Best Girl, Pollyanna, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Sparrows, Suds

David Shepard

The Douglas Fairbanks Collection Volume Two (The Iron Mask, The Mark of Zorro, Don Q Son of Zorro, The Nut, The Matrimaniac)
D.W. Griffith Special Editions The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance, Way Down East
Special Editions

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, Kriemhild's Revenge

The Douglas Fairbanks Collection Volume One (Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers, The Gaucho, The Thief of Bagdad)
The Chaplin Mutuals
The Art of Buster Keaton Volume One (The Saphead, Three Ages, Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr. and four shorts)
The Art of Buster Keaton Volume Two (The Navigator, Seven Chances, Go West, Battling Butler and nine shorts)
The Art of Buster Keaton Volume Three (The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., College and six shorts)
First American Features: 1912-1916 (The Cheat, Civilization, From the Manger to the Cross, Traffic in Souls, Young Romance and an excerpt from A Girl's Folly)
The Golden Age of German Cinema (Berlin Symphony of a Great City, Faust, The Love of Jeanne Ney)
Classics of the Soviet Cinema (Earth, The End of St. Petersburg, The Man With the Movie Camera, Strike)

Aelita: Queen of Mars, America, The Black Pirate, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Don Q, Son of Zorro, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Isn't Life Wonderful, The Mark of Zorro, Nosferatu, Orphans of the Storm, The Spiders, Spies, Tillie's Punctured Romance, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
Early Short Films Landmarks of Early Film, The Magic of Melies
Withdrawn in favor of better quality versions College, Steamboat Bill, Jr., The Phantom of the Opera

Chaplin: A Legacy of Laughter The First National Films, The Kid and A Dog's Life, A Woman of Paris (included with A King in New York), The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times

Republic Pictures Silent Classics Battleship Potemkin, The Birth of a Nation, The Black Pirate, Blood and Sand, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Charlie Chaplin: The Early Years, Vol. I-IV, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hearts of the World, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, The Iron Mask, Kriemhilde's Revenge, The Mark of Zorro, Max Fleischer's Koko the Clown Cartoons, Nosferatu, Orphans of the Storm, Siegfried, Son of the Sheik, The Thief of Bagdad

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Phone 1-800-776-LUMI (5864) or 303-446-0400
Fax 303-446-0101

The Age of Exploration Tabu, Chang, Grass, 90 Degrees South, The Silent Enemy, Simba, In the Land of the War Canoes, With Byrd at the South Pole
Cinemateque Quebecoise Felix the Cat, Animation Legend Winsor McCay
George Eastman House The Birth of a Nation, The Lost World, The Last of the Mohicans, The Phantom of the Opera

Criterion The King of Kings, The Last Laugh
The Killiam Collection The Beloved Rogue, The Extra Girl, The Gold Rush, It, Son of the Sheik, Steamboat Bill, Jr.

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