Public Domain Movies

College (1927)
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton, Florence Turner, Harold Goodwin, Ann Cornwall.
Shy, nerdy university student becomes a sports star to impress a girl with an eye for athletes.

General, The (1927)
Running Time: 107 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton
Classic silent with a Civil War setting and involving a stolen train. Buster Keaton's best feature film about a thrilling true locomotive chase behind enemy lines in the Civil War.

Goat, The (1921)
Running Time: 23 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil badguy.

Navigator, The (1924)
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton, Florence Turner, Harold Goodwin, Ann Cornwall.
Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.

Paleface, The (1922)
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton (Silent)
Buster Keaton stars in this two-reel comedy as the captive of hostile Indians. His captors tie him to a stake and prepare him for death by fire. Keaton moves with the stake as the Indians try frantically to place the firewood around him. When he survives the flames due to his fire-resistant clothes, Keaton is made a member of the tribe and named Little Chief Paleface. He then foils the scheme of unsavory oil speculators to steal the land from his Indian companions.

Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Running Time: 69 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, Tom Lewis.
City-educated college student returns home and must earn the respect of his father, a country-bred, no-nonsense riverboat owner who is embarassed by his son.

Three Ages (1923)
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Oliver Hardy.
Keaton's first feature film is a parody of Griffith's "Intolerance" as he searches for true love in prehistoric, ancient and modern times. Dir. Buster Keaton.