▶ Free on demand · streams from Starlite TV's own storageOriginal added soundtrack muted (unknown origin); CC0 Chopin piano score instead.

Haxan (1922)

Name: Haxan
Genre: Horror
Released: 1922
Duration: 1 h 44 min

1922105 minHorrorStrong (subtitles under review) rights evidenceSilent · CC0 piano score

Haxan (1922) is a 105-minute horror film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below).

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About Haxan (1922)

Häxan is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch-hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of mental or neurological disorders, triggering mass hysteria.

Quick facts

Year: 1922
Runtime: 105 minutes
Type: Film · Horror
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

From the Wikipedia article on Häxan (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1922 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent (Swedish). Beware 1968 narrated version (Burroughs narration, copyrighted). 2026-10-10: replaced an x264 scene-style release ('-Classics') with a 2007 upload in IA's silent_films collection (source stated as publicdomaintorrents.com, a public-domain film site; low resolution). Needs review: burned-in English subtitles may be a newer translation.
Source: Internet Archive

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