Most Viewed Year 1928

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Walt Disney

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 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

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 photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

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

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

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

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Popov

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

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

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

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

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge

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

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

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

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Hessling

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

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