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Considered as the very first Christmas movie and a technical marvel of its time, Santa Claus is an 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve.

The first "Panic Room" movie. The Lonely Villa is a 1909 American short silent crime drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film stars David Miles, Marion Leonard and Mary Pickford in one of her first film roles. It is based on the 1901 French play A...

The Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon is an 1898 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. Based on one of his stage magic acts, and starring Méliès himself, the film presents a varied assortment of images and imaginings dreamed by the astronom...

Frankenstein, a young medical student trying to create the perfect human being, creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée, but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Alice encounters a host of fascinating characters after she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a fascinating land full of talking animals. Original release January 19, 1915 as a silent film accompanied by an organ.

Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.

The first known gay film in history. Paul Körner, a successful violinist, falls in love with Kurt Sivers, his student. Paul is blackmailed by Franz Bollek, money in exchange to keep Paul's homosexuality a secret. One of the first films to portray gay cha...

Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew, takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina, an aroused Jekyll sets out on a quest to separate man's...

How do you make a monument? Produced by the Museum in 1922, this short film follows the American artist Alexander Phimister Proctor’s process of sculpting Theodore Roosevelt, from creating a small clay sketch and a plaster model through casting the final...