Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin 1925

7.62

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

1925

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush 1925

7.98

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

1925

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera 1925

7.08

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

1925

The Big Parade

The Big Parade 1925

7.60

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925

7.30

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

1925

Seven Chances

Seven Chances 1925

7.51

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

1925

The Freshman

The Freshman 1925

6.98

Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.

1925

The Lost World

The Lost World 1925

6.70

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

1925

Go West

Go West 1925

6.90

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

1925

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz 1925

5.50

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

1925

Strike

Strike 1925

7.40

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

1925

The Joyless Street

The Joyless Street 1925

6.90

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

1925

Ways to Strength and Beauty

Ways to Strength and Beauty 1925

7.10

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.

1925

The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three 1925

6.80

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

1925

Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney 1925

6.90

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2014.

1925

Madame Behave

Madame Behave 1925

5.00

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.

1925

Below the Line

Below the Line 1925

10.00

Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.

1925

The Red Kimona

The Red Kimona 1925

5.70

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

1925

The Movies

The Movies 1925

5.50

Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.

1925

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse 1925

6.70

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

1925