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thumb|thumbtime=12|Cabiria (full video) Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story of an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna, religious rituals in Carthage, the alpine trek of Hannibal, Archimedes' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and Scipio maneuvering in North Africa. Apart from being a classic on its own terms, the film is also notable for being the first film
Quo Vadis
1913 film by Enrico Guazzoni
L'Inferno
'''''L'Inferno''' () is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Inferno'', the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. ''L'Inferno'' took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film. It is also one of the first films to be shown in its entirety in the United States.
Antony and Cleopatra
1913 film by Enrico Guazzoni
The Mechanical Man
1921 Italian science fiction film directed by André Deed
Assunta Spina
1915 film by Francesca Bertini and Gustavo Serena
Rapsodia satanica
1917 film by Nino Oxilia
Quo Vadis
1924 film by Georg Jacoby, Gabriellino D'Annunzio
Avatar
1916 film
The Last Days of Pompeii
1913 film by Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi
Filibus
Filibus is a 1915 Italian silent adventure film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by the future science fiction author Giovanni Bertinetti (it). It features Valeria Creti (fr) as the title character, a mysterious sky pirate who makes daring heists with her technologically advanced airship. When an esteemed detective sets out on her trail, she begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with him, slipping between various male and female identities to romance the detective's sister and stage a midnight theft of a pair of valuable diamonds.
Nero
1922 American-Italian silent historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards
La falena
1916 film directed by Carmine Gallone
Lost in the Dark
1914 film by Nino Martoglio
Flower of Evil
1915 film
Messalina
1923 film by Enrico Guazzoni
The Railway Owner
1919 film by Eugenio Perego
The Naked Truth
1914 film by Carmine Gallone
Ma l'amor mio non muore
1913 Italian film directed by Mario Caserini
Julius Caesar
1914 film directed by Enrico Guazzoni
The Clemenceau Affair
1917 film by Alfredo De Antoni
Cyrano de Bergerac
1925 film by Augusto Genina
Fabiola
1918 film by Enrico Guazzoni
The Wedding March
1915 film directed by Carmine Gallone
La nave
1921 film by Gabriellino D'Annunzio
Madame Guillotine
1916 film by Mario Caserini, Enrico Guazzoni
Sun
1929 film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
The Warrior
1916 film by Luigi Maggi, Giovanni Pastrone, Luigi Romano Borgnetto
Jone o Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei
1913 film by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
Malombra
1917 film directed by Carmine Gallone
The Fire
1916 film by Giovanni Pastrone
The Betrothed
1923 film by Mario Bonnard
Blue Blood
1914 film by Nino Oxilia
La dama de Chez Maxim's
1923 film by Amleto Palermi
When Knights Were Bold
1916 Italian silent comedy film directed by Oreste Visalli
Tigre reale
1916 film by Giovanni Pastrone
Odette
1916 film by Giuseppe de Liguoro
Emperor Maciste
1924 film by Guido Brignone
The Carnival of Venice
1928 film by Mario Almirante
Hamlet
1917 film by Eleuterio Rodolfi
Theodora
1922 film directed by Leopoldo Carlucci
Za-la-mort
1924 German-Italian silent action film
The Two Sergeants
1913 film by Eugenio Perego
The Last Days of Pompeii
1926 film
The Lady of the Camellias
1915 film by Gustavo Serena
A Doll Wife
1919 film by Carmine Gallone
The Crusaders
1918 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni
The Nude Woman
1922 film by Roberto Roberti
Maciste on Vacation
1921 film by Luigi Romano Borgnetto
On with the Motley
1920 film
Redenzione
1919 film
The Sack of Rome
1923 film by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Enrico Guazzoni
Lucciola
1917 film by Augusto Genina
Maciste the Policeman
1918 Italian film
A Woman's Story
1920 film by Eugenio Perego
Kif Tebbi
1928 film by Mario Camerini
The Revenge of Maciste
1921 film by Luigi Romano Borgnetto
La storia di un peccato
1918 film
Wanda Warenine
1917 film by Riccardo Tolentino
The Mysterious Princess
1920 film by Herbert Brenon