# List of lost silent films (1925–1929)

This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1925 to 1929.
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929
| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
| 1925 | Ace of Spades | Henry MacRae | William Desmond, Mary McAllister | A 15-part Western serial. | |
| 1925 | The Adventurous Sex | Charles Giblyn | Clara Bow, Herbert Rawlinson, Earle Williams | Six reels, 58–60 minutes. | |
| 1925 | Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | | First Bolivian fiction feature film. | |
| 1925 | The Dark Angel | George Fitzmaurice | Vilma Bánky, Ronald Colman | Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925. | |
| 1925 | The Fighting Heart | John Ford | George O'Brien, Billie Dove | | |
| 1925 | The Fighting Ranger | Jay Marchant | Jack Dougherty, Eileen Sedgwick | A Western serial with 18 episodes. | |
| 1925 | The Great Circus Mystery | Jay Marchant | Joe Bonomo, Louise Lorraine | A 15-chapter serial. | |
| 1925 | Heartbound | Glen Lambert | Ranger Bill Miller, Bess True | An early 3D film (see List of 3D films (1914–2004)). | |
| 1925 | His Supreme Moment | George Fitzmaurice | Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Anna May Wong | Some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor. | |
| 1925 | Idaho | Robert F. Hill | Mahlon Hamilton, Vivian Rich | A ten-part serial. | |
| 1925 | Kiss Me Again | Ernst Lubitsch | Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Clara Bow | Warner Bros. popular film. | |
| 1925 | The Lawful Cheater | Frank O'Connor | Clara Bow, David Kirby, Raymond McKee | | |
| 1925 | A Man of Iron | Whitman Bennett | Lionel Barrymore, Mildred Harris | | |
| 1925 | Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (One Does Not Play with Love) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Werner Krauss | | |
| 1925 | New Brooms | William C. deMille | Bessie Love, Neil Hamilton, Phyllis Haver | | |
| 1925 | Perils of the Wild | Francis Ford | Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby | A serial consisting of 15 episodes. | |
| 1925 | Play Ball | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Walter Miller, Allene Ray | A ten-part serial. | |
| 1925 | The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | | Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released. | |
| 1925 | The Scarlet Streak | Henry MacRae | Jack Dougherty, Lola Todd | A serial of ten episodes. | |
| 1925 | That Royle Girl | D. W. Griffith | W. C. Fields | Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence. | |
| 1925 | Thank You | John Ford | Alec B. Francis, Jacqueline Logan | | |
| 1925 | A Thief in Paradise | George Fitzmaurice | Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle | | |
| 1925 | The Tower of Lies | Victor Seastrom | Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Ian Keith | | |
| 1925 | We Moderns | John Francis Dillon | Colleen Moore | A sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923. | |
| 1925 | Wild Justice | Chester Franklin | Peter the Great, George Sherwood, Frank Hagney, Frances Teague | | |
| 1925 | Wild West | Robert F. Hill | Jack Mulhall, Helen Ferguson | A ten-chapter serial. | |
| 1926 | Arirang | Na Woon-gyu | Na Woon-gyu | A copy of this Korean film was rumored to have been in the possession of a Japanese collector who died in February 2005. | |
| 1926 | The Bar C Mystery | Robert F. Hill | Dorothy Phillips, Wallace MacDonald | A ten-part Western serial. | |
| 1926 | The Boy Friend | Monta Bell | Marceline Day, John Harron, Gwen Lee | | |
| 1926 | The Cat's Pajamas | William A. Wellman | Betty Bronson | | |
| 1926 | The Dice Woman | Edward Dillon, Edmund F. Bernoudy | Priscilla Dean | | |
| 1926 | The Fighting Marine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Gene Tunney, Marjorie Day | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1926 | Fighting with Buffalo Bill | Ray Taylor | William F. Cody, George H. Plympton, William Lord Wright | | |
| 1926 | The Great Gatsby | Herbert Brenon | Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton | Only a minute-long trailer has survived. Despite extensive searches for the film and rumours of surviving copies existing in obscure archives, no other trace of the film has been found. | |
| 1926 | Gwiaździsta eskadra | Leonard Buczkowski | Barbara Orwid | A story of Americans in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War in 1918–1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by the Soviet Army after 1945. | |
| 1926 | Hearts and Fists | Lloyd Ingraham | John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, Alan Hale Sr. | One of three known films from H.C. Weaver Studios | |
| 1926 | London | Herbert Wilcox | Dorothy Gish | It is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing British feature films. | |
| 1926 | Meet the Prince | Joseph Henabery | Joseph Schildkraut, Marguerite De La Motte | | |
| 1926 | The Radio Detective | William James Craft, William A. Crinley | Jack Dougherty, Margaret Quimby | A serial of ten episodes. | |
| 1926 | The Road to Glory | Howard Hawks | May McAvoy | Hawks's first official film as a director. | |
| 1926 | Snowed In | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Walter Miller | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1926 | A Social Celebrity | Malcolm St. Clair | Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks | In 1957, one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire. | |
| 1926 | Stop, Look and Listen | Larry Semon | Oliver Hardy | | |
| 1926 | Strings of Steel | Henry MacRae | William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick | | |
| 1926 | Sweeney Todd | George Dewhurst | G.A. Baughan | The first of several film adaptations of the Sweeney Todd character. | |
| 1926 | Swell Hogan | Ralph Graves | Ralph Graves | The first film produced by Howard Hughes, who hated the film and may have ordered it destroyed. | |
| 1926 | A Trip to Chinatown | Robert P. Kerr | Margaret Livingston, Earle Foxe, J. Farrell MacDonald | | |
| 1926 | The Winking Idol | Francis Ford | William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick | A Western serial in ten parts. | |
| 1926 | A Woman of the Sea | Josef von Sternberg | Edna Purviance | Produced by Charlie Chaplin, he destroyed it in 1933 as a tax write-off. Production stills survive. | |
| 1927 | The American | J. Stuart Blackton | Bessie Love, Charles Ray | Made in the experimental widescreen process Natural Vision. Never released theatrically. | |
| 1927 | Babe Comes Home | Ted Wilde | Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson | Babe Ruth stars as himself in this feature-length comedy. | |
| 1927 | Blake of Scotland Yard | Robert F. Hill | Hayden Stevenson, Grace Cunard | A 12-episode serial. | |
| 1927 | Broadway Nights | Joseph C. Boyle | Lois Wilson, Sam Hardy, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sothern | A silent romantic drama film. | |
| 1927 | The Broncho Twister | Orville O. Dull | Tom Mix, Helene Costello | | |
| 1927 | The Callahans and the Murphys | George W. Hill | Marie Dressler, Polly Moran | This film caused some controversy because of its stereotypical depiction of Irish people. MGM withdrew the picture from distribution. | |
| 1927 | The Chinese Parrot | Paul Leni | Marian Nixon, Florence Turner, Hobart Bosworth | | |
| 1927 | The City Gone Wild | James Cruze | Louise Brooks | Early gangster film, with titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz. | |
| 1927 | The Conjure Woman | Oscar Micheaux | Evelyn Preer | | |
| 1927 | The Devil Dancer | Fred Niblo | Gilda Gray, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong | | |
| 1927 | Evening Clothes | Luther Reed | Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks | | |
| 1927 | The Fire Fighters | Jacques Jaccard | Jack Dougherty, Helen Ferguson | A ten-chapter serial. | |
| 1927 | For the Love of Mike | Frank Capra | Claudette Colbert | Colbert's film debut. | |
| 1927 | The Gateway of the Moon | John Griffith Wray | Dolores del Río, Walter Pidgeon | | |
| 1927 | Good as Gold | Scott R. Dunlap | Buck Jones, Frances Lee, Carl Miller | Based on the short story "The Owner of the Aztec" by Murray Leinster published in Western Magazine (5 May 1926). | |
| 1927 | A Harp in Hock | Renaud Hoffman | Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, Bessie Love | | |
| 1927 | Hats Off | Hal Yates | Laurel and Hardy | | |
| 1927 | The Heart of the Yukon | W.S. Van Dyke | John Bowers, Anne Cornwall, Edward Hearn | One of three known films from H.C. Weaver Studios | |
| 1927 | Heebee Jeebees | Anthony Mack | Our Gang: (Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Pete the Pup) | | |
| 1927 | Heroes of the Wild | Harry S. Webb | Jack Hoxie, Josephine Hill | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1927 | The House Behind the Cedars | Oscar Micheaux | Shingzie Howard, Lawrence Chenault, C. D. Griffith | A race film, it was banned in Virginia. | |
| 1927 | London After Midnight | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day | Chaney played both the villain, and the detective hunting him. Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. | |
| 1927 | The Magic Flame | Henry King | Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky | | |
| 1927 | The Masked Menace | Arch Heath | Larry Kent, Jean Arthur | Filmed in Berlin, New Hampshire. | |
| 1927 | Melting Millions | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Walter Miller | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1927 | The Mountain Eagle | Alfred Hitchcock | Nita Naldi, Bernhard Goetzke | The film was poorly received and criticised for its lack of realism, and Hitchcock himself was relieved that the film was lost. | |
| 1927 | Mumsie | Herbert Wilcox | Pauline Frederick, Nelson Keys, Herbert Marshall | | |
| 1927 | On Guard | Arch Heath | Cullen Landis, Muriel Kingston | A ten-part serial. | |
| 1927 | The Potters | Fred C. Newmeyer | W. C. Fields | | |
| 1927 | Rolled Stockings | Richard Rosson | Louise Brooks | The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in Berkeley, California. | |
| 1927 | The Story of the Flag | Anson Dyer | | The first full-length British animated film, it is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | |
| 1927 | Sword of Penitence | Yasujirō Ozu | Saburō Azuma | Ozu's first film as director. | |
| 1927 | Tip Toes | Herbert Wilcox | Dorothy Gish, Will Rogers | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | |
| 1927 | The Gay Defender | Gregory La Cava | Richard Dix, Thelma Todd, Fred Kohler, Jerry Mandy | | |
| 1927 | The Trail of the Tiger | Henry MacRae | Jack Dougherty, Frances Teague | A serial in ten parts. | |
| 1927 | Two Flaming Youths | John Waters | W. C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian | | |
| 1927 | Yale vs. Harvard | Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: (Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jean Darling, Pete the Pup) | Earliest Our Gang film to be entirely lost. | |
| 1928 | Anybody Here Seen Kelly? | William Wyler | Bessie Love, Tom Moore | | |
| 1928 | The Awakening | Victor Fleming | Vilma Bánky, Walter Byron | | |
| 1928 | The Actress | Sidney Franklin | Sidney Franklin | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. | |
| 1928 | Baiyun Ta (The White Cloud Pagoda) | Zhang Shichuan | Ruan Lingyu | | |
| 1928 | The Big City | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Betty Compson | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A trailer survives, but it does not include any footage from the film. | |
| 1928 | The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple | Zhang Shichuan | Die Hu, Jie Tang | Considered to be one of the longest films ever made, released in 19 parts from 1928 to 1931 with a total running time of 27 hours. Notable for being the first martial arts film. | |
| 1928 | The Czarina's Secret | R. William Neill | Olga Baclanova, Sally Rand | Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. | |
| 1928 | The Drag Net | Josef von Sternberg | William Powell, Evelyn Brent | | |
| 1928 | Dry Martini | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Mary Astor | | |
| 1928 | Edison, Marconi & Co. | Anthony Mack | Our Gang: (Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jay R. Smith, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Pete the Pup) | | |
| 1928 | The Fleet's In | Malcolm St. Clair | Clara Bow, James Hall | With talking sequences and sound effects. | |
| 1928 | 4 Devils | F. W. Murnau | Janet Gaynor | Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928. | |
| 1928 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Mal St. Clair | Alice White, Ruth Taylor | The first version of the Anita Loos story. | |
| 1928 | Growing Pains | Anthony Mack, Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Jay R. Smith, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Jean Darling, Pete the Pup | | |
| 1928 | The Hawk's Nest | Benjamin Christensen | Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Sōjin Kamiyama | | |
| 1928 | Ladies of the Mob | William Wellman | Clara Bow, Richard Arlen | | |
| 1928 | The Last Moment | Paul Fejos | Georgia Hale, Otto Matieson | Experimental silent film told without subtitles. | |
| 1928 | The Legion of the Condemned | William A. Wellman | Fay Wray, Gary Cooper | | |
| 1928 | Mark of the Frog | Arch Heath | Donald Reed Margaret Morris | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1928 | Napoleon's Barber | John Ford | Otto Matieson, Natalie Golitzen | | |
| 1928 | Pirates of the Pines | J. C. Cook | George O'Hara, Rita Roma | A serial with ten episodes. | |
| 1928 | A Princess of Destiny | Tom Terriss | Anders Randolf, Doris Lloyd, Dorothy Gould, Lloyd Ingraham, Fairfax Burger | Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. | |
| 1928 | The Street of Sin | Mauritz Stiller | Emil Jannings, Fay Wray | | |
| 1928 | Tarzan the Mighty | Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor | Frank Merrill | The seventh Tarzan movie produced. | |
| 1928 | Thérèse Raquin | Jacques Feyder | Gina Manès, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Jeanne Marie-Laurent | | |
| 1928 | The Vanishing Rider | Ray Taylor | William Desmond, Ethlyne Clair | A serial of 12 parts. | |
| 1928 | The Vanishing West | Richard Thorpe | Jack Perrin, Eileen Sedgwick | A ten-episode serial. | |
| 1928 | Vultures of the Sea | Richard Thorpe | Johnnie Walker, Shirley Mason | A serial with ten chapters. | |
| 1928 | What Price Beauty? | Tom Buckingham | Nita Naldi, Natacha Rambova | Film was shot in May 1925, but not released until January 1928 due to distribution issues. Notable for being Myrna Loy's debut. | |
| 1928 | The Yellow Cameo | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Edward Hearn | | |
| 1929 | Barro Humano | Adhemar Gonzaga | Gracia Morena, Lelita Rosa, Eva Schnoor, Eva Nil | | |
| 1929 | The Case of Lena Smith | Josef von Sternberg | Esther Ralston | Silent film withdrawn from circulation when talkies began to dominate. Only a 4-minute clip is known to exist. | |
| 1929 | The Crooked Billet | Adrian Brunel | Madeleine Carroll, Carlyle Blackwell, Miles Mander | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | |
| 1929 | The Diamond Master | Jack Nelson | Hayden Stevenson, Louise Lorraine | A ten-part serial. | |
| 1929 | The Fatal Warning | Richard Thorpe | Ralph Graves, Helene Costello | Twelve-part mystery serial released by Mascot Pictures. | |
| 1929 | The Fire Detective | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey | Gladys McConnell, Hugh Allan | A serial with ten episodes. | |
| 1929 | Frontier Romance | Elmer Clifton | Allan Simpson, Nina Quartero, Arthur Clayton | The last of twelve short films produced in Technicolor as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. | . |
| 1929 | The Holy Terror | Anthony Mack, Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: Mary Ann Jackson, Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Harry Spear, Pete the Pup | | |
| 1929 | The Last Post | Dinah Shurey | John Longden, Frank Vosper, Cynthia Murtagh | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | |
| 1929 | The Pirate of Panama | Ray Taylor | Jay Wilsey, Natalie Kingston | A serial in 12 parts. | |
| 1929 | The Wages of Sin | Oscar Micheaux | William A. Clayton, Jr., Bessie Givens | A race movie with an all-black cast. | |