1930 Movies

In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an in...

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different ta...

After being unfairly dismissed from his post as an Air Force aviator, Ubi was reduced to the sad condition of a tramp. Upon discovering that his frien...

Kitty Collins and Flo Jenkins, a couple of jazz-age cuties with bobbed-hair and rolled-stockings, go in search of good-times and whoopee-making. The p...

German silent drama

Short film about the 400th anniversary of Augsburg, Germany

Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.

A silent short film from artist Adaline Kent with moments captured from her wedding to Robert Boardman Howard and their subsequent honeymoon.

A French documentary short.

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Yira, yira", tango composed and written by Enrique Santos Discépolo.

In this one, we get simple variations of people heading off to a May Day celebration, carrying a Maypole and a hippopotamus to serve as the Queen of t...

Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces...

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This wa...

Forever Yours (1930) was an aborted film project starring and produced by silent-film legend Mary Pickford.

An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of t...

A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.

Short subject from Pathe based on the writings of Grantland Rice, primarily remembered for his elegant approach to sportswriting. This was one of the...