Silent Movie Day is Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Turner Classic Movies celebrates Silent Movie Day every year and this year TCM is showing silent films all day starting at 6 am on September 29.
The primetime lineup for Silent Movie Day is all Swashbuckler films, listed below:
8:00 PM The Three Musketeers (1921). Directed by Fred Niblo and stars Douglas Fairbanks as d’Artagnan. D’Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Read more on IMDB.
10:30 PM The Mark of Zorro (1920). Directed by Fred Niblo and stars Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks (as “Elton Thomas”) and Eugene Miller. Read more on IMDB.
12:30 AM The Sea Hawk (1924). A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain. Directed by Frank Lloyd and stars Milton Sills. Read more on IMDB.
2:45 AM The Beloved Rogue (1927). Directed by Alan Crosland and starring John Barrymore as François Villon, who is a renowned poet, a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot. Read more on IMDB.
4:30 AM Scaramouche (1923). When a nobleman murders his best friend, a lawyer becomes a revolutionary with his heart set on vengeance. Directed by Rex Ingram and stars Lloyd Ingraham. Read more on IMDB.
6:45 AM The Prisoner of Zenda (1922). When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne. Directed by Rex Ingram and stars Lewis Stone. Read more on IMDB.
The daytime lineup for TCM Silent Movie Day is to be announced.
Related article: Silent Movie Sundays on TCM
About Silent Movie Day
Silent Movie Day is an annual celebration of silent movies, held every year on September 29. Sponsors of the event include Brandee B. Cox, a Senior Film Archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive and co-founder of The Silent Treatment; Chad Hunter, director of the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society & Festival, and an experienced film archivist; and Steven K. Hill, a motion picture archivist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and co-founder of The Silent Treatment e-digest and screening series in Los Angeles.
Read more at the Silent Movie Day website.
Below is clip from The Mark of Zorro.
