Major Studio Silent Films on DVD

Some of the best silent films made were made by the major studios, such as Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sadly, almost none of these films have appeared on DVD.

Fox has several John Ford silent films. They also have what is often called the greatest silent film ever made, Sunrise. Paramount has about a dozen films, including a 1923 version of The Ten Commandments and the first Best Picture Oscar winner, Wings. Warner Bros. owns countless MGM and WB silents such as The Big Parade, The Crowd, the 1925 version of Ben-Hur, and The Cameraman.

This petition is meant as encouragement to have Fox, Paramount, WB, and other major studios to release their silents onto DVD. This is mainly for Region 1, but the studios should also allow our worldwide silent film fans to see these works of art.

Off the top of my head, titles I'd like to see on DVD include, but are not limited to:

Warner:
The Unknown (Lon Chaney...along with next 3)
The Unholy Three (1925 and 1930 versions)
Tell It To The Marines
He Who Gets Slapped (first Metro-Goldwyn film ever)
The Crowd
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
Spite Marraige (Buster Keaton)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Big Parade
Greed (4-hour reconstruction)
A Woman of Affairs (Garbo)
Love (Greta Garbo)
The Wind (Lillian Gish, directed by Victor Sjstrom)
The Flesh and the Devil
The Merry Widow (Von Stroheim)
The Fire Brigade
The Four Horsemen of the Apocolapyse (could by Photoplay...not sure)
Noah's Ark (Michael Curtiz)

Paramount:
Wings
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. Demille)
Docks of New York
The Last Command (Emil Jannings)
The Wedding March (Von Stroheim)
The Covered Wagon
Running Wild (W.C. Fields)

Fox:
The Iron Horse
Sunrise
Several other John Ford westerns

Other:
"Hollywood" Miniseries (HBO has video rights, HIGHLY REQUESTED documentary on silent cinema!)
Abel Gance's Napoleon (US rights held by Francis Ford Coppola...tell Zoetrope that you want to see the 5 1/2 hour version shown in Great Britain!)

This petition isn't meant for JUST those films, the goal is to have complete sets of DVD's...a Lon Chaney box set would be logical for the MGM films because of length. A Garbo-John Gilbert set would also be good.

Also, early sound films should also be released such as The Jazz Singer, The Singing Fool, Lights of New Yorks...perhaps in Dawn of Sound box sets like they were on laserdisc.

Please be polite and answer all fields.