Most Viewed Year 1928

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Philbin

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Falconetti

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jean Debucourt

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Popov

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jameson Thomas

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Walt Disney

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alex Allin

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dolores Costello

Mickey rides up to a cantina and does a tango with Minnie. When a big cat steals her away, Mickey gives chase, riding a drunken ostrich. At the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Walt Disney

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Laura La Plante

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valéry Inkijinoff

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jules Raucourt

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

In a decaying castle surrounded by a dank, mirrored lake live the morbidly nervous Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister, Madeline. Their tale is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Herbert Stern

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinne Griffith