Current as of 02.04.2021
7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)[1]
National Film Preservation Board (January 2021)
- This compilation is a definite work-in-progress. Updated versions of this list will be posted periodically at this location.
- Feature film means 4 reels or more in length
- Each title contains a hypertext link to its entry in our silent film database. There you can find additional information on each title, including studio.
- In cases where only a fragment from one reel, trailer, outtakes or stills survive, that film is included in this list as a lost film.
- "Incomplete" films are not included here. These comprise cases where a full reel or more survives but not the whole set of reels.
- Our searchable database consists of approximately 11,000 titles, the 7200+ in this list of "lost" titles as well as the 3800 or so titles surviving as incomplete or complete. The full database may be searched at:
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/silentfilms/silentfilms-home.html - Please direct any questions or report any errors/suggested changes to Steve Leggett at sleg@loc.gov
- Some recent "finds" now removed from this list: Devil's Claim (1920), Foreman of the Bar-Z Ranch (1915), Secrets of the Night (1924), Sinews of Steel (1927), Broadway Billy (1926), Broadway Gold (1923), Dancer and the King (1914), Dark Angel (1925), Double-Fisted (1925), Earth Woman (1926), Man-Made Women/Woman (1928), Eye of Envy (1917), Between Dangers (1927), Pursued (1925), On-the-Square Girl (1917), Two Lovers (1928), Win(k)some Widow (1914), Clear the Decks (1917), Grim Game (1917), The Noose (1928), In Slumberland (1917), First Degree (1923), White Pants Willie (1927), Who Is to Blame (1918), Power Divine (1923), Smoking Trails (1924), Cyclone Jones (1924), Lightning Romance (1924), Ridin' Gent (1926), One Chance in a Million (1927), Mojave Kid (1927). First Degree (1923), Price of a Party (1924)
$1,000 Reward (1923), Charles R. Seeling
$30,000 (1920), Ernest C. Warde
$5,000 Reward (1918), Douglas Gerrard
$5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot, The (1914), Bertram Harrison
1915 World's Championship Series (1915)
2 Girls Wanted (1927), Alfred E. Green
23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919), Henry King
30 Below Zero (1926), Robert P. Kerr
39 East (1920), John S. Robertson
40-Horse Hawkins (1924), Edward Sedgwick
40th Door, The (1924), George B. Seitz
45 Calibre War (1929), Leo Maloney
- ↑ This list contains 8 films from the year 1930, which is after the title's stated year range of 1912–1929. (Wikisource contributor note)
