Lillian Gish Movies

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.

Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of...

Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as...

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to...

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous...

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her...

Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife....

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as...

Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.

A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.

A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston...

The Tear That Burned is a silent movie drama.

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to...

A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the...