American Feature Films of 1925

What This Page Contains

On this page you will find a list of all 95 American silent feature films of 1925 that can be viewed online, mostly on YouTube. For each film on the list, you will find a link to the best online version(s) of the film.

Highlights of Our List of 1925 Online Films

1925 was arguably the greatest year for silent movies, as it was in this year that many of the era’s most famous and enduring films were released. In alphabetical order, here are some of 1925’s greatest hits:

1. Ben-Hur, the biblical epic from MGM, starring Ramon Navarro and Francis X. Bushman;
2. The Big Parade, the silents’ most well-known war drama of The Great War, starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée;
3. The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin’s epic of the Alaskan gold rush, a film which also featured long-time silent comic actor Mack Swain in his most memorable role;
4. The Lost World, the great early science fiction film featuring extensive claymation, or stop-action, footage of a land extensively populated by dinosaurs;
5. The Merry Widow, another vehicle for silent megastar John Gilbert, directed by Erich von Stroheim; and
6. The Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney’s masterpiece, and a film which for many fans of the era represents the paragon of silent movie production.

1925 also saw the film debut of Paul Robeson, playing a drunken and wicked minister in director Oscar Micheaux’s controversial Body and Soul. Pampered Youth, an early adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons, was released in this year.

Unusual releases for 1925 include Wolf Blood, the earliest surviving feature film to explore the possible existence of werewolves; Lorraine of the Lions, featuring Patsy Ruth Miller as a sort-of female Tarzan; and Madame Behave, a rare starring vehicle for the entertainment world’s first great drag-star, Julian Eltinge.

Fans of Clara Bow will be delighted to find five of her films from 1925 on our list. Finally, we may note that it is in our list of online films of 1925 that we first find William Powell, W.C. Fields and Constance Bennett appearing in starring roles.

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

1925 Statistics (per the Library of Congress silent movie database):

Number of Features Released: 752
Number Extant (complete and incomplete): 391
Number Completely Lost: 361

1925 American Feature Films Available for Viewing Online

American Feature Films of 1925 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.