Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928). Genre: Western, Adventure, Comedy, War. Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Strongheart, Fearless the Dog, Peter the Great, Roscoe Arbuckle, Charley Chase. Release Date: 2025-05-20. Runtime: 477 minutes. Rating: 6.3/10. This special two-disc collection, presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress, celebrates cinema’s lesser-known dog stars with their most memorable features, shorts, and newsreel appearances (1898-1928). Films dated as early as 1898 offer satisfying simple glimpses of dogs at play, anticipating the adorable animal videos that would become social media phenomena more than a century later.

Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)