Tide of Empire is a 1929 American synchronized sound Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and Tom Keene.

While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

On January 12, 2010, Tide of Empire was released on home video for the first time on DVD on Warner Archive Collection.

[1] The film features a theme song entitled “Josephita” which was composed by Ray Klages (words) and Jesse Greer (music).

[citation needed] Buster Keaton, who was visiting the set, got cast in a cameo as a drunk getting thrown out of a saloon.