Most Viewed Year 1928

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Isabel Jeans

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

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

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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

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

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Walt Disney

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

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

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

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Balfour

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wallace Beery

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

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eleanor Boardman

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Thomas Meighan

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved...

Genre: War

Cast: Margaret Mann

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