1927 Movies

Pedro (played by a white actor in blackface),a son of a former slave, leaves Cuba (where he was being mistreated for being black) to seek his fortune...

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout f...

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is de...

An early animated Song Car-Tune from the Fleischer Studios.

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper off...

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

For those who thought "Reefer Madness" was the first exploitation movie you'll be interested to know that the genre was alive and well during the sile...

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. St...

This documentary observes the nightly activity of Les Halles, Paris’s central market, as goods arrive by cart and train to supply the city. Handlers u...

Comedy by Kiyohiko Ushihara. Once a full-length feature film, now only 14 minutes remain.

Wages of Conscience is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John Ince and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Grace Darmond and Margaret Campbell.

A silent comedy short.

La marche des machines is a thundering, thumping symphony of turbines, belts, flanges, wheels and sparks.

A cowboy searches for the man who killed his brother.

Ted Lanning works for his father's railroad company. He is demoted to a manual labor position on a dangerous mountain section of the track known as th...

Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the...

Safe-cracker Ned Dugan agrees to perform one last robbery, earning him enough money to move his younger brother, Jimmy, out of the city. At the behest...

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows Lili, a t...