1928 Movies

Parody film about the life of king Erik XIV of Sweden, made by students of Lund University.

The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

A film that follows the exploration of the Hamilton River in Newfoundland and Labrador by Yale students Varick Frissell & Jim Hillier. Plus the discovery of what they named the Grenfell River, which was known only from Indian legends, but never previously...

The Gumps spend time at a hotel

The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.

Titles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that turns in all directions. Antennae enable daphnia to move: in a close up magnified 150,000 times, we see the musc...

1928 American silent romance film

Agostini's 1928 film Patagonia documents the daily lives of the three native groups who inhabited Tierra del Fuego between Chile and southern Argentina: the Onas, the Alacalufes, and the Tehuelches. Featuring life amidst a rough terrain of rocky ice-capped mou...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon featuring Waffles the Cat.

It is being shown in a chain of 31 cinemas affiliated with the National Association of Cinematographers, in homage to President Leguía on his 25 years in public life.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A melodrama about a daredevil who frees a Korean girl from a village of prostitutes in northern China, Manchuria.

A silent film adaptation of the popular, yet legendary, tragic romance between Mughal Prince Salim (the future Emperor Jahangir) and the courtesan Anarkali. Their forbidden love incurs Emperor Akbar's wrath, leading to Anarkali's legendary punishment of being...

A young woman grows up in the country and inherits an estate from her wealthy grandfather. Her grandfather's servant attempts to defraud her but his attempts are frustrated by the grandfather's lawyer and the girl's friend, a naval lieutenant.

The attaché of a former government of the Ukraine marries a rich Russian woman who wants to climb in society whereas her unnatural affection for another woman keeps her from really becoming his wife. Her daughter falls in love with her stepfather, family drama...

An octopus slithers over objects on land—a doll, a skull—then oozes along the shore into the sea. It secretes its ink. The camera follows it along rocks into deeper water, watching closely as it breathes. Its eye is closed then open. Simple titles, in French a...