| Amor de Perdiçao | (Pallu, 1921) Music composed by Armando Leça One of Portugal's first major melodramatic films, the story of two luckless young lovers whose fathers are irreconcilable enemies. The young woman dies in a convent and her lover dies at sea |
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| Ben Hur | (Niblo, 1926) Music composed and compiled by William Axt The adventures of a Jew whose life is touched by Christ. Wonderful battle at sea between Romans and pirates. Famous chariot race. One of the silent film era's biggest epics, starring Ramon Navarro |
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| Birth of a Nation, The | (Griffith, 1915) Music composed and compiled by Joseph Carl Breil The controversial film about the Civil War in America that established D. W. Griffith as one of the founders of the American film industry. |
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| Black Pirate, The | (Fairbanks, 1926) Music composed by Mortimer Wilson Douglas Fairbanks at his athletic best joins a swashbuckling crew of pirates in order to avenge his father’s death and finds truelove. |
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| Boheme, La | (Vidor, 1926) Music composed by William Axt. Lillian Gish as the tragic Mimi in bohemian Paris. |
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| Broken Blossoms | (Griffith, 1919) Music composed by Louis F. Gottschalk Lillian Gish as the abused woman protected for a time by a Chinese man. One of D. W. Griffith’s most penetrating and disturbing films. |
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| Carmen | (DeMille, 1915) Music composed by Georges Bizet and arranged by Hugo Riesenfeld Based on the original Mérimée story and starring internationally famous opera star Geraldine Farrar. |
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| Circus, The | (Chaplin, 1968) Music by Charles Chaplin Starring Charlie Chaplin, a fast-paced and gag-filled gem, in which the little tramp falls in love and joins the circus. |
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| Covered Wagon, The | (Cruz, 1923) Music composed and compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld Overture by Mortimer Wilson One of the first westerns, a melodrama about the trek west by wagon train, shot entirely on location. Established the conventions of all subsequent westerns, including the comic sidekicks. |
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| Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil | (Melies, 1907) Music composed by Elmer Bernstein. A hand painted film, filled with the magic made possible by early film. |
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| Haexan | (Christiansen, 1922) Music compiled from original cue sheet. A documentary history of witchcraft with reenactments of the trials and treatment of suspected witches. Christiansen’s style of film making strongly influenced that of Carl Dreyer, particularly his Passion of Joan of Arc. |
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| Intolerance | (Griffith, 1916) Composed and compiled by Joseph Carl Breil One of the most ambitious, influential films ever made, it weaves four stories from four different historical epochs together. |
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| Jeanne Dore | (Louis Mercanton, 1915) Music compiled and arranged by Max Winkler A chilling family drama, starring Sarah Bernhardt. |
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| Making of an American, The | (Connecticut Department of Americanization, 1920) Music compiled by James Luke An early government propaganda film which encouraged immigrants to learn English |
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| Master of the House | (Dreyer, 1925). Music compiled from original cue sheet A wife’s family decides to teach her overbearing husband a lesson. |
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| Nosferatu | (Murnau, 1922) Music composed by Hans Erdmann, reconstructed by Gillian Anderson and James Kessler A cult favorite – the first and best vampire film based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Stars Max Schreck. |
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| Old Ironsides | (Cruze, 1926) Music composed and compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld The swashbuckling adventure story about the victory of the infant American marines against the Tripolitanian pirates. Stars Walter Beery. |
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| Orphans of the Storm | (Griffith, 1921) Music composed and compiled by Louis F. Gottschalk and William Frederick Peters Set during the French Revolution, this costume drama stars Lillian and Dorothy Gish. |
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| P’tite Lilie, La | (Cavalcanti, 1927) Music by Darius Milhaud Based on a song of the same title about a young, orphaned factory girl, who meets a man at a dance. He convinces her to quit her job and become a prostitute. Then he murders her when she tries to quit. |
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| Pandora’s Box | (Pabst, 1928) Music compiled by Gillian Anderson Based on the play by Wedekind, a film starring the cult star Louise Brooks. |
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| Parsifal | (Edison, 1904) Music by Richard Wagner, arranged by Max Spicker Lecture with slides and motion picures Lecture with slides and motion pictures - an unusual and graphic illustration of how a general audience was educated about opera. |
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| Passion of Joan of Arc, The | (Herbert Brenon, 1924). Music composed by Leo Pouget and Victor Alix One of the most famous films of all time. Starring Antonin Artaud and Marie Falconetti. |
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| Peter Pan | (Herbert Brenon, 1924). Music compiled by Gillian Anderson Based closely on the original play by J. M. Barrie who oversaw the production. |
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| Plastic Age, The | (Wesley Ruggles, 1925) Music compiled by Gillian Anderson A farse about a college athlete who is able to pursue his studies and his athletic career only by staying away from his true love. Starring the IT girl, Clara Bow. |
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| Punyo de Hierro, El | (Mexico, 1927). Music compiled by Gillian Anderson Cinematic magic realism about drug abuse in 1920's Mexico. |
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| Robin Hood | (Fairbanks, 1922) Music composed by Victor L. Schertzinger, compiled and arranged by Schertzinger, A. H. Cokayne and Gillian Anderson Robin Hood combats Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Starring an irrepressible Douglas Fairbanks. |
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| Ten Commandments, The | (DeMille, 1923). Music composed and compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld The first version of this epic by DeMille. |
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| Tepayac | (J.M.Ramos, C.E.Gonzàles, F. Sàyago, 1918). Music compiled by Gillian Anderson The story of the appearance of the Virgin to a Mexican peasant during the colonial occupation of Mexico by the Spanish. |
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| Thief of Bagdad, The | (Fairbanks, 1924). Music composed by Mortimer Wilson A thief earns his happiness and wins the Princess in this fantasy film filled with special effects and the athletic prowess of its star Douglas Fairbanks. |
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| Way Down East | (Griffith, 1920) Composed and compiled by William Frederick Peters and Louis Silvers A classic rural nineteenth century melodrama transferred to the screen, starring Lillian Gish. |
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| White Sister, The | (King, 1923) Music compiled from original cue sheet Starring Lillian Gish as a woman who becomes a nun after the disappearance of her lover. |
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| Wings | (Wellman, 1927) Music composed and compiled by J. S. Zamecnik Heartbreaking and hair raising story of two American flyers in World War I France. Stars Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow. The first film to win an Academy Award. |
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| Yankee Clipper, The | (Julian, 1927). Music compiled from original cue sheet melodrama set against the background of the clipper ship trade with China. Follows the race between two ships and the attempt to prove to an Englishwoman that her fiance is a villainous blackguard. All the action actually takes place on a clipper ship. |
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