What This Page Contains
On this page you will find a list of all 47 American silent feature films of 1922 that can be viewed online, mostly on YouTube. For each film on the list, you will find a link to the best online version of the film.
Highlights of Our List of 1922 Online Films
Rudolph Valentino continued to dominate the silver screen, as all four of his 1922 releases, including the blockbuster Blood and Sand, appear on our list. Lon Chaney appears in 5 of our films, proving he was no slouch either (2 additional releases of 1922 featuring The Man of a Thousand Faces are lost).
The most notable films of 1922 include (1) Robin Hood, perhaps Douglas Fairbanks’ most famous role; (2) Nanook of the North, the stunning documentary portraying the lives of real-life Eskimos; and (3) Salomé, the dazzling Biblical story of the daughter of Herod, starring the mesmerizing Nazimova.
Our list of online films of 1922 gives us more Cecil B. DeMille and Jackie Coogan, Marion Davies and Max Linder, and Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford.
Newcomers to our lists include John Gilbert, whose earliest starring vehicle Monte Cristo can be seen on YouTube, and Jack Hoxie, the now largely-forgotten cowboy star.
Want to See Films From Other Years?
Go to American Feature Films of: 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931
Matt Moore and Seena Owens
in Back Pay (1922)
Allakariallak in
Nanook of the North (1922)
Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane
in The Headless Horseman (1922)
1922 Statistics (per the Library of Congress silent movie database):
Number of Features Released: 695
Number Extant (complete and incomplete): 188
Number Completely Lost: 507
1922 American Feature Films Available for Viewing Online
| Title | # Reels | Director | Stars | Genre | Youtube Link | Comments | |
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| Back Fire | 5 | Alan James | Jack Hoxie, Florence Gilbert | Western | Link | No music; film desperately needs restoration. | |
| Back Pay | 7 | Frank Borzage | Seena Owens, Matt Moore | Drama | Link | ||
| Beauty's Worth | 7 | Robert G. Vignola | Marion Davies, Hallam Cooley | Drama | Link | ||
| Beyond the Rocks | 7 | Sam Wood | Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino | Drama | Link I Link II | Link I: with contemporary saxophone + ensemble accompaniment; with Greek subtitles. Link II: with soft contemporary soundtrack, and Spanish subtitles. |
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| Blood and Sand | 9 | Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner | Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee | Drama | Link I Link II Link III | Link I: traditional old organ score. Link II: mixed contemporary soundtrack. Link III: traditional small ensemble accompaniment. |
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| Captain Fly-by-Night | 5 | William K. Howard | Johnnie Walker, Francis McDonald | Drama | Link | No music. | |
| Doctor Jack | 5 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis | Comedy | Link | ||
| Flesh and Blood | 6 | Irving Cummings | Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts | Drama | Link | ||
| Foolish Wives | 14 | Erich von Stroheim | Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Erich von Stroheim | Drama | Link I Link II | Link I: traditional piano score. Link II: classical soundtrack. |
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| Grandma's Boy | 5 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis | Comedy | Link I Link II | Link I: Robert Israel orchestral score. Link II: piano score. |
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| Heart's Haven | 6 | Benjamin B. Hampton | Robert McKim, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams | Drama | Link | ||
| Headless Horseman, The | 7 | Edward D. Venturini | Will Rogers, Lois Meredith | Comedy, Horror | Link I Link II | Link I: classical, mostly piano, accompaniment. Link II: mixed classical, some organ, accompaniment, but repeating every 22 minutes. |
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| Lorna Doone | 7 | Maurice Tourneur | Madge Bellamy, John Bowers | Period drama | Link | With mixed piano and contemporary soundtrack. With English intertitles and French sub-titles and optional Spanish CC. | |
| Light in the Dark, The | 8 | Clarence Brown | Hope Hampton, Lon Chaney | Crime, Drama | Link | Of the original 8-reel feature, just this 33-minute abridged version, entitled "The Light of Faith", survives. | |
| Manslaughter | 10 | Cecil B. DeMille | Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan | Drama | Link | No music; film needs some restoration. | |
| Monte Cristo | 10 | Emmett J. Flynn | John Gilbert, Spottiswoode Aitken | Drama | Link | With ads. | |
| Moran of the Lady Letty | 7 | George Melford | Dorothy Dalton, Rudolph Valentino | Adventure | Link | With Robert Israel score. Includes TCM 3-minute intro. | |
| My Boy | 5 | Albert Austin, Victor Heerman | Jackie Coogan, Claude Gillingwater | Comedy, Drama | Link | No music. | |
| Man From Beyond, The | 7 | Burton L. King | Harry Houdini | Mystery, Adventure | Link | ||
| Man From Home, The | 7 | George Fitzmaurice | James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson | Drama | Link | Intertitles in Dutch; no music. | |
| Nanook of the North | 6 | Robert J. Flaherty | Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga | Documentary | Link I Link II Link III Link IV | Link I: string and ensemble score. Link II: original contemporary score. Link III: live screening with sax, drums, and other instruments accompanying. Link IV: live screening, with modular synthesizer score. |
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| Night Life in Hollywood | 6 | John Frederick Caldwell | J. Frank Glendon, Josephine Hill | Comedy | Link | Only 4 of 6 reels survive. No music. | |
| Oliver Twist | 8 | Frank Lloyd | Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney | Drama | Link I Link II Link III Link IV | Link I: live screening, ensemble score. Link II: vintage organ accompaniment. Link III: traditional piano score. Link IV: classical soundtrack. |
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| One Exciting Night | 11 | D.W. Griffith | Carol Dempster, Henry Hull | Comedy, Mystery | Link | ||
| Pride of Palomar, The | 8 | Frank Borzage | Forrest Stanley, Marjorie Daw | Drama | Link | ||
| Primitive Lover, The | 7 | Sidney Franklin | Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford | Comedy | Link | No music. | |
| Prisoner of Zenda, The | 10 | Rex Ingram | Lewis Stone, Alice Terry | Adventure | Link | Original score by Edward Boensnes: organ + ensemble. | |
| Reckless Youth | 6 | Ralph Ince | Elaine Hammerstein, Niles Welch | Drama | Link | No music. | |
| Riders of the Law | 5 | Robert N. Bradbury | Jack Hoxie | Western | Link | No music. Film needs restoring. | |
| Robin Hood | 11 | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett | Period adventure | Link I Link II | Link I: fully restored, with music, from Kino. Link II: live screening, with original, live contemporary score. |
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| Salomé | 6 | Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova | Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier | Biblical drama | Link | ||
| Saturday Night | 9 | Cecil B. DeMille | Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel | Comedy | Link | ||
| Shadows | 7 | Tom Forman | Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte | Drama | Link | ||
| Sherlock Holmes | 9 | Albert Parker | John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster | Drama, Mystery | Link | ||
| Sky High | 5 | Lynn Reynolds | Tom Mix, Eva Novak | Western, Drama | Link | ||
| Smilin' Through | 8 | Sidney Franklin | Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing | Drama | Link | No music; intertitles in Dutch only. | |
| Seventh Day, The | 6 | Henry King | Richard Barthelmess, Louise Huff | Drama | Link | ||
| Tess of the Storm Country | 10 | John S. Robertson | Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes | Drama | Link | No music. | |
| Timothy's Quest | 7 | Sidney Olcott | Joseph Depew, Helen Rowland | Drama | Link | ||
| Third Alarm, The | 7 | Emory Johnson | Ralph Lewis, Ella Hall | Drama | Link | ||
| Three Must-Get-Theres, The | 5 | Max Linder | Max Linder | Comedy | Link | ||
| Toll of the Sea, The | 5 | Chester M. Franklin | Anna May Young, Kenneth Harlan | Drama | Link | An early film in technicolor. | |
| Trap, The | 6 | Robert Thornby | Lon Chaney, Alan Hale | Drama | Link | ||
| Village Blacksmith, The | 8 | John Ford | Will Walling | Drama | Link | Only this 11 minute fragment survives of this early John Ford work. | |
| When Knighthood was in Flower | 12 | Robert G. Vignola | Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley | Drama | Link | A higher quality of print needs to be uploaded. | |
| Worldly Madonna, The | 6 | Harry Garson | Clara Kimball Young | Drama | Link | No music; film needs restoring. | |
| Young Rajah, The | 8 | Phil Rosen | Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley | Drama | Link | The film survives in fragments; this is a "reconstruction", with stills and notes combined with surviving footage. |
American Feature Films of 1922 Commercially Available,
But Not Yet Uploaded Online
The goal is to get the films listed below uploaded to YouTube. All of these films are in the public domain. However, any musical accompaniment is likely not in the public domain, and may be flagged by YouTube; consequently, you may wish to upload them without any soundtrack (or add your own). And of course, IF YOU ADD A NEW FILM TO YOUTUBE, LET US KNOW, and we will link to your video.
| Title | Director | Stars | Buy From | Notes | |
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| Another Man's Boots | William James Craft | Francis Ford | Grapevine Oldies.com | ||
| Big Stakes | Clifford S. Elfelt | J.B. Warner | Oldies.com | ||
| Broken Silence, The | Dell Henderson | Zena Keefe | Oldies.com | ||
| Human Hearts | King Baggot | House Peters | SHOF | SHOF #30. | |
| Just Tony | Lynn Reynolds | Tom Mix | Grapevine Oldies.com | ||
| Kentucky Derby, The | King Baggot | Reginald Denny, Lillian Rich | Oldies.com | ||
| Peg O' My Heart | King Vidor | Laurette Taylor | SHOF | SHOF #50. | |
| Rounding Up the Law | Charles R. Seeling | Guinn "Big Boy" Williams | Oldies.com | ||
| Snowshoe Trail, The | Chester Bennett | Jane Novak | Oldies.com | ||
| Thundering Hoofs | Francis Ford | Peggy O'Day | Grapevine Oldies.com | ||
| Under Two Flags | Tod Browning | Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood | SHOF | SHOF #20. | |
| Better Man Wins, The | Frank S. Mattison, Marcel Perez | Pete Morrison | Grapevine | ||
| Blazing Arrows | Henry McCarty | Francelia Billington | Grapevine Oldies.com | ||
| Silver Spurs | Henry McCarty, James Leo Meehan | Lester Cuneo | Grapevine Oldies.com | ||
| Trail of the Ax, The | Ernest C. Warde | Dustin Farnum | SHOF | SHOF #125. |