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1,901 | Kansas Saloon Smashers | American | Unknown | null | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Saloon_Smashers | A bartender is working at a saloon, serving drinks to customers. After he fills a stereotypically Irish man's bucket with beer, Carrie Nation and her followers burst inside. They assault the Irish man, pulling his hat over his eyes and then dumping the beer over his head. The group then begin wrecking the bar, smashing... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/KansasSaloonSmashers1901.jpg |
1,901 | Love by the Light of the Moon | American | Unknown | null | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_by_the_Light_of_the_Moon | The moon, painted with a smiling face hangs over a park at night. A young couple walking past a fence learn on a railing and look up. The moon smiles. They embrace, and the moon's smile gets bigger. They then sit down on a bench by a tree. The moon's view is blocked, causing him to frown. In the last scene, the man fan... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Still_from_1901_film_Love_by_the_Light_of_the_Moon.jpg |
1,901 | The Martyred Presidents | American | Unknown | null | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martyred_Presidents | The film, just over a minute long, is composed of two shots. In the first, a girl sits at the base of an altar or tomb, her face hidden from the camera. At the center of the altar, a viewing portal displays the portraits of three U.S. Presidents—Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley—each victims of a... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/The_Martyred_Presidents_%281901%29.jpg |
1,903 | Alice in Wonderland | American | Cecil Hepworth | May Clark | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1903_film) | Alice follows a large white rabbit down a "Rabbit-hole". She finds a tiny door. When she finds a bottle labeled "Drink me", she does, and shrinks, but not enough to pass through the door. She then eats something labeled "Eat me" and grows larger. She finds a fan when enables her to shrink enough to get into the "Garden... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Norman_Whitten_Mad_Hatter_1903.jpg |
1,903 | The Great Train Robbery | American | Edwin S. Porter | null | western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_film) | The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to transmit orders for the engineer to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank. They then knock the operator out and tie him up. As the train stops it is boar... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/The_Great_Train_Robbery%2C_Edwin_S._Porter%2C_Edison_Films%2C_1903_Poster.jpg |
1,905 | The Night Before Christmas | American | Edwin Stanton Porter | null | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Before_Christmas_(1905_film) | Scenes are introduced using lines of the poem.[2] Santa Claus, played by Harry Eytinge, is shown feeding real reindeer[4] and finishes his work in the workshop. Meanwhile, the children of a city household hang their stockings and go to bed, but unable to sleep they engage in a pillow fight. Santa Claus leaves his home ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/The_Night_Before_Christmas_1905_still.png |
1,906 | Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | American | Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter | null | short | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_a_Rarebit_Fiend_(1906_film) | The Rarebit Fiend gorges on Welsh rarebit at a restaurant. When he leaves, he begins to get dizzy as he starts to hallucinate. He desperately tries to hang onto a lamppost as the world spins all around him. A man helps him get home. He falls into bed and begins having more hallucinatory dreams. During a dream sequence,... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Little_Nemo_purple_blanket_modified.png |
1,906 | From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies | American | Francis J. Marion and Wallace McCutcheon | null | short action/crime western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Leadville_to_Aspen:_A_Hold-Up_in_the_Rockies | The film features a train traveling through the Rockies and a hold up created by two thugs placing logs on the line. They systematically rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway along the tracks and later by a hi-jacked horse and cart. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/From-Leadville-to-Aspen-title-screen.png |
1,906 | Kathleen Mavourneen | American | Edwin S. Porter | null | short film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Mavourneen_(1906_film) | Irish villager Kathleen is a tenant of Captain Clearfield, who controls local judges and criminals. Her father owes Clearfield a large debt. Terence O'More saves the village from Clearfield, causing a large celebration.
Film historian Charles Musser writes of Porter's adaptation, "O'More not only rescues Kathleen from... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Kathleen_Mavourneen_%281906%29_snapshot_2.jpg |
1,907 | Laughing Gas | American | Edwin Stanton Porter | Bertha Regustus, Edward Boulden | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Gas_(film)#1907_Film | The plot is that of a black woman going to the dentist for a toothache and being given laughing gas. On her way walking home, and in other situations, she can't stop laughing, and everyone she meets "catches" the laughter from her, including a vendor and police officers. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Laughinggas1907.jpg |
1,908 | The Call of the Wild | American | D. W. Griffith | Charles Inslee | adventure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild_(1908_film) | A white girl (Florence Lawrence) rejects a proposal from an Indian brave (Charles Inslee) in this early one-reel Western melodrama. Despite the rejection, the Indian still comes to the girl's defense when she is abducted by his warring tribe. In her first year in films, Florence Lawrence was already the most popular am... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Screenshot_of_digital_copy_of_the_1908_film_The_Call_of_the_Wild.jpg |
1,909 | A Drunkard's Reformation | American | D. W. Griffith | Arthur V. Johnson | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Drunkard%27s_Reformation | John Wharton, the husband of a true and trusting wife and father of an eight-year-old girl, through the association of rakish companions becomes addicted to the drink habit, and while the demon rum has not fastened its tentacles firmly, there is no question that given free rein the inevitable would culminate in time. A... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Opening_credits_from_silent_film_A_Drunkard%27s_Reformation_%281909%29.jpg |
1,909 | The Golden Louis | American | D. W. Griffith | null | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Louis | An old woman sends a girl begging in the streets of Paris on a snowy evening. Callous revelers pass her by, and she falls asleep before one donor finally drops a golden Louis in her shoe. A gambler with a sure tip on roulette but no cash borrows the coin to win a fortune for the girl. She wakes, and the two miss each o... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Biograph-Studios-NYC-1908.jpg |
1,910 | An Arcadian Maid | American | D.W. Griffith | Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Arcadian_Maid | Mary Pickford plays Priscilla an unemployed maid who finds work at a farm. There she meets a no-good peddler who starts flirting with her and makes her fall in love with him. He runs up a gambling bill and asks her to help him pay his debts or he won't be able to marry her.[1] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/An_arcadian_maid_%281910%29.jpg |
1,910 | A Christmas Carol | American | J. Searle Dawley | Marc McDermott, Charles Stanton Ogle | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(1910_film) | The day before Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to contribute to the Charity Relief Committee, and then rudely rejects his nephew Fred when he visits Scrooge in his office. When Scrooge returns home, he sees the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him of the punishment he will suffer in the ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Film_still_of_1910_Edison_release_A_Christmas_Carol.jpeg |
1,910 | Frankenstein | American | J. Searle Dawley | Augustus Phillips, Charles Stanton Ogle, Mary Fuller | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1910_film) | Described as "a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's famous story", the plot description in the Edison Kinetogram was:[3] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Frankenstein_%281910%29_poster.jpg |
1,910 | Hemlock Hoax, the Detective | American | Unknown | null | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_Hoax,_the_Detective | Hemlock Hoax is a detective who has little respect in the small tropical town where he lives, despite the fact that he thinks he is a better sleuth than Sherlock Holmes. A pair of boys decide to play a trick on Hoax and tell him about a murder. Hoax rushes to scene of the crime where he discovers a shred of cloth, late... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Siegmund_Lubin_in_1913.jpg |
1,910 | The House with Closed Shutters | American | D.W. Griffith | Henry B. Walthall | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_with_Closed_Shutters | During the American Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/The_House_with_Closed_Shutters.jpg |
1,910 | A Lad from Old Ireland | American | Sidney Olcott | Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lad_from_Old_Ireland | An Irish boy (Olcott) emigrates to America to escape the desperate poverty of Ireland. After finding work in construction, he finds success in politics. He returns to Ireland after receiving a letter from his sweetheart (Gauntier) just as her destitute family is being forced off their land.[3] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/2.-Lad-from-Old-Ireland-advert-.jpg |
1,910 | Pocahontas | American | Unknown | Anna Rosemond, George Barnes, Frank H. Crane | short fantasy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_(1910_film) | Though the film is presumed lost, a synopsis survives in The Moving Picture World from October 15, 1910. It states: "Captain John Smith comes to America as the head of a band of English colonists and settles in Jamestown, Virginia. While at the head of the colony Smith makes a trip of exploration into the interior and ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Pocahontas_1910.jpg |
1,910 | Ramona | American | D. W. Griffith | Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_(1910_film) | Ramona chronicles the romance between Ramona (Mary Pickford), a Spanish orphan from the prestigious Moreno family, and Alessandro (Henry B. Walthall), an Indian who appears on her family's ranch one day. A man named Felipe (Francis J. Grandon) proclaims his love for Ramona, but she rejects him because she has fallen fo... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Mary_Pickford_cph.3c17995u.jpg |
1,910 | What the Daisy Said | American | D.W. Griffith | Clara T. Bracy, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Daisy_Said | The film opens upon two sisters (Martha, played by Mary Pickford, and Millie, played by Gertrude Robinson) standing in a field of daisies. Millie plucks the petals off of one to divine whether he loves me... he loves me not. The girls part ways; Martha's next stop is the vegetable patch in which a lanky farmhand dilige... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Question_book-new.svg |
1,911 | Baseball and Bloomers | American | Unknown | William Garwood, Marguerite Snow | silent sports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_and_Bloomers | Though the film is presumed lost, a synopsis survives in The Moving Picture World from January 7, 1911. It states, "Miss Street's Seminary for Girls has a very ambitious class of pupils. The young athletes, not content with basketball and tennis, aspire to shine in the great American game, and organize a baseball club.... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Baseball_and_bloomers_still.jpg |
1,911 | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses | American | Oscar Apfel | Charles Ogle, Natalie Jerome | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Arrow:_A_Tale_of_the_Two_Roses#Film,_TV_or_Theatrical_Adaptations | The novel is set in the reign of "old King Henry VI" (1422–1461, 1470–1471) and during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). The story begins with the Tunstall Moat House alarm bell, rung to summon recruits for its absent lord Sir Daniel Brackley, to join the Battle of Risingham; at which the outlaw "fellowship" known as ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Blackarrowcover.jpg |
1,911 | Brown of Harvard | American | Colin Campbell | Edgar G. Wynn | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_of_Harvard_(1911_film) | The story deals with Tom Brown's efforts to save his fiance's "black sheep" brother Wilfred Kenyon from disgrace. An unfortunate state of affairs exists between Wilfred and Marion Thorne, the sister of Gerald, who is stroking the varsity crew. The situation is misunderstood by all but Tom. Matters reach a climax on the... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Brownofharvard-flier-1911.jpg |
1,911 | David Copperfield | American | Theodore Marston | Marie Eline, Florence La Badie, Mignon Anderson, William Russell | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1911_film) | "David Copperfield consists of three reels and as three separate films, released in three consecutive weeks, with three different titles: The Early Life of David Copperfield, Little Em'ly and David Copperfield and The Loves of David Copperfield.[4] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/David_Copperfield_film_1911.jpg |
1,911 | The Pasha's Daughter | American | Unknown | William Garwood | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pasha%27s_Daughter | The film begins with Jack Sparks, a young American, who is traveling in Turkey. He befriends an aged Turk during a carriage ride and the Turk invites Jack into his home. The man smokes from a hookah and several of other men arrive and speak with the Turk whilst Jack wanders about the house. Soon afterwards, the men are... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/The_Pasha%27s_Daughter_poster.jpg |
1,912 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | American | Lucius Henderson | James Cruze | horror | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(1912_film) | White-haired Dr. Jekyll has secretly locked himself in his laboratory administering himself with a vial of formula. He slumps into his chair with his head on his chest. Slowly, as the drug takes effect, a dark-haired, taloned beast now appears in the chair. After repeated use, Jekyll's evil alter ego emerges at will, c... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Thanhouser_ad_from_Moving_Picture_World_January_1912_-_cropped.jpg |
1,912 | The Land Beyond the Sunset | American | Harold M. Shaw | Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Bigelow Cooper | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Beyond_the_Sunset | Joe is an impoverished New York newsboy who lives with his abusive grandmother. While selling papers, he is given a ticket for a children's excursion sponsored by the Fresh Air Fund.
The next morning, Joe sneaks out of his tenement home to join the excursion, where he sees the countryside and the ocean for the first t... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/The_Land_Before_Sunset_1912_title.jpg |
1,912 | An Unseen Enemy | American | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Unseen_Enemy | A physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. It is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/An_Unseen_Enemy.jpg |
1,913 | Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life | American | Mack Sennett | Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Barney Oldfield | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Oldfield%27s_Race_for_a_Life | Barney Oldfield races a speeding locomotive to rescue a damsel in distress tied up on the tracks by evil villain Ford Sterling. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Barney_Oldfield%27s_Race_for_a_Life_title_film_still.png |
1,913 | Cohen Saves the Flag | American | Mack Sennett | Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_Saves_the_Flag | Cohen (Ford Sterling) and his rival Goldberg (Henry Lehrman) enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an enemy hand grenade and raises a fall... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Cohen_Saves_the_Flag_1913_moviescene.jpg |
1,913 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | American | Herbert Brenon and Carl Laemmle | King Baggot | horror | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(1913_film) | Dr. Henry Jekyll (King Baggot) sends a note to his fiancée, Alice (Jane Gail), and her father (Matt B. Snyder) to say that instead of accompanying them to the opera, he must give more time to his charity patients. At Jekyll’s practice, his friends Dr. Lanyon (Howard Crampton) and Utterson (William Sorrel), a lawyer, ri... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/NewPrincessTheatre-listofshows-april1913.jpg |
1,913 | The Evidence of the Film | American | Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser | William Garwood, Marie Eline | crime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evidence_of_the_Film | The Evidence of the Film tells the story of a messenger boy at a film studio who is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. He is saved by his sister, a film cutter, who comes across some footage of her brother inadvertently walking into a location shot and being knocked down by the real-life villain. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/The_Evidence_of_the_Film_poster.jpg |
1,913 | The Face at the Window | American | Unknown | Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle, Stuart Holmes | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_at_the_Window_(1913_film) | As described in a 1913 blurb: "The foreman of the sawmill misconstrues the disappearance of his ward who has taken drastic measures to protect her guardian's interests. A startling incident reveals the girl's motive."[2] | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Dixie_Theatre_Bryan_Texas_March_29_1913.png |
1,913 | The Quakeress | American | Raymond B. West | Louise Glaum | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quakeress | The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla (played by Glaum), is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart (played by Ray). The local minister, Rev. Cole (played by Taylor), who calls on her at her cabin with flowers, is an unwelcome suitor. In revenge, he has "blue laws" passed, amo... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/The_Quakeress.jpg |
1,913 | The Restless Spirit | American | Allan Dwan | J. Warren Kerrigan, Pauline Bush | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restless_Spirit | The film begins with the Dreamer, a restless and disappointed dreamer who has a wife and child. He gazes at his hands and dreams of becoming a conqueror, but laments that no chance comes to him and continues to dream. The Dreamer becomes the subject of ridicule and his wife becomes the subject of pity by the community.... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Cropped_Restless_Spirit.jpg |
1,914 | The Avenging Conscience | American | D. W. Griffith | Henry B. Walthall, Blanche Sweet | drama, horror | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avenging_Conscience | A young man (Henry B. Walthall) falls in love with a beautiful woman (Blanche Sweet), but is prevented by his uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken) from pursuing her. Tormented by visions of death and suffering and deciding that murder is the way of things, the young man kills his uncle and builds a wall to hide the body.
The y... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Question_book-new.svg |
1,914 | The Battle of the Sexes | American | D.W. Griffith | Donald Crisp, Lilian Gish | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Sexes_(1914_film) | Frank Andrews (Donald Crisp) is a well-to-do, middle class apartment dweller who is devoted to his wife (Mary Alden) and two children, John (Robert Harron) and Jane (Lillian Gish). Andrews enters into a mid-life crisis when a fetching young lady, Cleo (Fay Tincher), moves into the apartment next door to the Andrews'. C... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Battleofthesexes1915ad.jpg |
1,914 | Between Showers | American | Henry Lehrman | Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Showers | Chaplin and Sterling play two young men, Masher and Rival Masher, who fight over the chance to help a young woman (Clifton) cross a muddy street. Sterling first sees the woman trying to cross and offers her an umbrella he stole from a policeman. He asks her to wait for him as he goes to get something to help her. Chapl... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Between_Showers_FilmPoster.jpeg |
1,914 | Brewster's Millions | American | Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Edward Abeles, Sydney Deane, Joseph Singleton | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_Millions_(1914_film) | Wealthy Edwin Peter Brewster disowns his son Robert when he marries Louise Sedgwick, a woman of modest means. Many years later, when Robert dies, however, E.P. Brewster leaves one million dollars to their son Monty, a bank clerk. Shortly thereafter, Monty learns that he has inherited seven million dollars from his Uncl... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Brewstersmillions1914scene-newspaper.jpg |
1,914 | The Call of the North | American | Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Robert Edeson, Theodore Roberts | adventure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_North_(1914_film) | Graehme, Ned Stewart's father was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse". Fortunately Virginia saves his life and the story's villain confesses Ned's innocence. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/The_Call_of_the_North_%281914%29_-_2.jpg |
1,914 | Captain Alvarez | American | Rollin S. Sturgeon | Edith Storey, William Desmond Taylor, George Holt | historical drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Alvarez | A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina. William Desmond Taylor portrays the title role, and Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Taylor's younger brother, is thought to have played the small role of a blacksmith. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Captain_Alvarez1914.jpg |
1,914 | Caught in a Cabaret | American | Mabel Normand | Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Edgar Kennedy | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caught_in_a_Cabaret | Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Caught_in_a_Cabaret_%28poster%29.jpg |
1,914 | Cinderella | American | James Kirkwood | Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Isobel Vernon | fantasy drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1914_film) | Cinderella is a kind young woman who lives with her wicked stepmother and ugly stepsisters. They abuse her and use her as the house maid. Cinderella thinks she's all alone in the world, but doesn't know a fairy godmother is constantly helping her. One day, she is collecting wood from the forest and meets Prince Charmin... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Cinderella_1914_poster.jpg |
1,914 | Cruel, Cruel Love | American | George Nichols and Mack Sennett | Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel,_Cruel_Love | Chaplin plays a character quite different from the Little Tramp for which he would become famous. In this short Keystone film, Chaplin is instead a rich, upper-class gentleman (Lord Helpus) whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend (played by Minta Durfee) sees him being embraced by her maid and jumps to the wron... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/CC_Cruel_Cruel_Love_1914.JPG |
1,914 | Dough and Dynamite | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fritz Schade | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dough_and_Dynamite | The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant. Charlie is especially inept and his comic carelessness enrages the customers. The workers in the restaurant's bakery go on strike for more pay, but are fired by the unsympathetic proprietor. Charlie is put to work in the bakery where his... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Dough_and_Dynamite_1914_Poster_de_la_pel%C3%ADcula.jpg |
1,914 | The Escape | American | D. W. Griffith | Donald Crisp, Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escape_(1914_film) | The film begins with a short prologue explaining the science of Eugenics; contrasting the careful selection observed in the animal world with the less predictable breeding habits of humans. This is illustrated by the story of the Joyce family, headed by Jim Joyce (Turner), a cruel and senseless man. Joyce's son Larry (... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Griffith.jpg |
1,914 | A Florida Enchantment | American | Sydney Drew | Sydney Drew, Edith Storey | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Florida_Enchantment | In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman about to be married, takes a magical seed which transforms its user into the opposite gender. Lillian's transformation into Lawrence Talbot has also sometimes been read as a transformation into a butch lesbian. This reading is bolstered by the later transformation ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/A_Florida_Enchantment.jpg |
1,914 | Gentlemen of Nerve | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Chester Conklin | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_of_Nerve | Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Gentlemen_of_nerve.jpg |
1,914 | Getting Acquainted | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Phyllis Allen | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Acquainted | In one of Chaplin's "park comedies" for Keystone Studios, Charlie and his domineering wife, Mrs. Sniffles, are walking in the greensward. When Mrs. Sniffles falls asleep on a park bench, Charlie takes the opportunity to walk away from her. He encounters pretty Mabel. At the moment, Mabel's husband, Ambrose, is occupied... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Getting_acquainted.jpg |
1,914 | His Father's Rifle | American | Edward LeSaint | Earle Foxe, Bertram Grassby | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Father%27s_Rifle | James Birch, an English hunter, is accidentally shot by the servant of Kirke Warren, a wild animal painter who is camping in the jungle. The terrified servant leaves the rifle, which is marked with his master's initials beside the body of the man. Later Warren meets Mrs. Birch, the widow of the unfortunate hunter and i... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Scene_from_1915_silent_film_His_Father%27s_Rifle.jpg |
1,914 | His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz | American | J. Farrell MacDonald | Violet MacMillan, Pierre Couderc | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Majesty,_the_Scarecrow_of_Oz | King Krewl (Raymond Russell) is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry his daughter, Princess Gloria (Vivian Reed), to an old courtier named Googly-Goo (Arthur Smollett), but she is in love with Pon, the Gardener's boy (Todd Wright). Krewl employs the Wicked Witch named Mombi (Mai We... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Scarecrowofoz_1914.jpg |
1,914 | Home, Sweet Home | American | D. W. Griffith | Earle Foxe, Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy Gish | biographical drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home,_Sweet_Home_(1914_film) | John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a dissolute life that leads to ruin and depression. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song, Home! Sweet Home! that later provides inspiration to several othe... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Home%2C_Sweet_Home_%281914_film%29.jpg |
1,914 | In the Land of the Head Hunters | American | Edward S. Curtis | null | documentary drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Land_of_the_Head_Hunters | The following plot synopsis was published in conjunction with a 1915 showing of the film at Carnegie Hall: | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Kwakwakawakwgirl.jpg |
1,914 | The Knockout | American | Charles Avery | Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knockout | Pug, a down-and-out hobo, is talked into pretending he is Cyclone Flynn, the boxing champion, and entering the ring for a fight. When the real Cyclone shows up, Pug ends up having to trade punches with him instead. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/The_Knockout_%28poster%29.jpg |
1,914 | Laughing Gas | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Schade | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Gas_(1914_film) | We are told Charlie is a dental assistant. He arrives at work where the patients are already waiting. He joins the tiny second dental assistant in the back room. They have a brief squabble then Charlie goes to the waiting room to clean the floor with a carpet sweeper. He bumps into a patient and a further squabble star... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Laughing_Gas_%28poster%29.jpg |
1,914 | Mabel's Blunder | American | Mabel Normand | Mabel Normand, Charly Chase, Al St. John | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel%27s_Blunder | Mabel's Blunder tells the tale of a young woman who is secretly engaged to the boss's son.[1] The young man's sister comes to visit at their office, and a jealous Mabel, not knowing who the visiting woman is, dresses up as a (male) chauffeur to spy on them. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Mabel%27s_Blunder.jpg |
1,914 | Mabel's Strange Predicament | American | Henry Lehrman | Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel%27s_Strange_Predicament | In a hotel lobby a heavily drunk tramp runs into an elegant lady, Mabel, who gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in the room of an elderly husband where she hides under the bed. Enter the jea... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Mabel%27sStrangePredicament-1.jpg |
1,914 | Making a Living | American | Henry Lehrman | Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Kirtley, Alice Davenport | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_a_Living | Chaplin's character attempts to convince a passerby (director Henry Lehrman) to give him money. Chaplin is then shown flirting with a woman and proposes to her, which she accepts. Lehrman enters to present the woman with flowers and a ring, which the woman refuses citing she's engaged. Lerhman sees Chaplin and a slapst... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Charlie_Chaplin_%28left%29_in_Making_a_Living_1914.jpg |
1,914 | Neptune's Daughter | American | Herbert Brenon | Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, William Welsh | fantasy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Daughter_(1914_film) | The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Neptune%27s_Daughter_1914_poster.jpg |
1,914 | The Perils of Pauline | American | Louis J. Gasnier | Pearl White | adventure serial | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perils_of_Pauline_(1914_serial) | The premise of the story was that Pauline's wealthy guardian Mr. Marvin, upon his death, has left her inheritance in the care of his secretary, Mr. Koerner, until the time of her marriage. Pauline wants to wait a while before marrying, as her dream is to go out and have adventures to prepare herself for becoming an aut... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Perilsofpauline.jpg |
1,914 | The Property Man | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Alice Davenport | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Property_Man | Charlie is in charge of stage "props" and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room.
Small caricatures on the wall indicate both the stars and the head of what can only be Charlie Chaplin with the word "PROPS" below.
Once the dressing-room issue is resolved the next issue i... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/The_Property_Man_%28poster%29.jpg |
1,914 | The Rounders | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rounders_(1914_film) | A drunk reveller (Chaplin) returns home to a scolding from his wife. Then his equally inebriated neighbor (Arbuckle) goes home to a cold reception from his wife. When the first couple hear the physical altercation across the hall (the second man starts strangling his wife after she hits him), the reveller's wife sends ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/The_Rounders_poster.jpg |
1,914 | Salomy Jane | American | William Nigh | Beatriz Michelena, House Peters | western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomy_Jane_(1914_film) | Rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era California: a woman (Salomy Jane) is saved from a ruffian (Red Pete) by a heroic stranger (Jack Dart), the latter saved from a lynching when falsely accused of a crime. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Salomy_Jane_%281914%29_-_11.jpg |
1,914 | Should a Woman Divorce? | American | Edwin McKim | Lea Leland, Leonid Samoloff | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Should_a_Woman_Divorce%3F | Grace Roberts (played by Lea Leland), marries rancher Edward Smith, who is revealed to be a neglectful, vice-ridden spouse. They have a daughter, Vivian. Dr. Franklin (Leonid Samoloff) whisks Grace away from this unhappy life, and they move to New York under aliases, pretending to be married (since surely Smith would n... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Should_A_Woman_Divorce_1914_still.jpg |
1,914 | The Squaw Man | American | Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Dustin Farnum | western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squaw_Man_(1914_film) | James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and his cousin, Henry (Monroe Salisbury), are upper class Englishmen and have been made trustees for an orphans’ fund. Henry loses money in a bet at a derby and embezzles money from “the fund” to pay off his debts. When war office officials are informed of the money missing from “the fun... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/TheSquawMan1914.jpg |
1,914 | Sweet and Low | American | William Desmond Taylor | William Garwood, Harry von Meter | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_Low_(1914_film) | Sad, lonely and unhappy, an old man sits in a city park, thinking about the past. A little girl comes up to him and takes his hand, asking him what is making him so sad. The child reminds him of his own lost little girl and the times of the past begin to flow through his memory. He had a happy life with a loving wife a... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Sweet_and_Low_scene.jpg |
1,914 | Those Love Pangs | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Cecile Arnold | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Love_Pangs | The Masher played by Charlie Chaplin fights for the attention of the landlady with the Rival played by Chester Conklin at the beginning of the film. The Masher makes his attempt first. While he is talking to the Landlady played by Helen Carruthers the Rival pokes him with a fork from behind a curtain. The Masher gets u... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Those_Love_Pangs_%28poster%29.jpg |
1,914 | Tillie's Punctured Romance | American | Mack Sennett | Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Keystone Kops | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie%27s_Punctured_Romance_(1914_film) | Charles Chaplin portrays a womanizing city man who meets Tillie (Marie Dressler) in the country after a fight with his girlfriend (Mabel Normand). When he sees that Tillie's father (Mack Swain) has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. In the city, he meets the woman he was seeing a... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Tillie%27s_Punctured_Romance_%281914_film%29_%28DVD_box_art%29.jpg |
1,914 | The Wrath of the Gods | American | Reginald Barker | Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrath_of_the_Gods_(1914_film) | Baron Yamaki (Sessue Hayakawa) is a fisherman who lives along with his daughter Toya San (Tsuru Aoki) on an island. The island is inhabited by Buddhists and Yamaki had been cursed by Buddha for an affront by one of his ancestors who in a murderous rage, defiled an altar of Buddha in the nearby temple. The curse was tha... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Wrathofthegods_1.jpg |
1,915 | After Five | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Edward Abeles, Sessue Hayakawa | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Five | Ted Ewing (Edward Abeles) invests both his own and the money of his fiancée, Nora Heldreth (Betty Schade), when a broker friend offers big investment returns. After the broker friend disappears, though, Ewing believes that he has squandered their money, and sets out on a course of action to recover it. He takes out a l... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/After_Five_-_newspaper_photo_-_1915.jpg |
1,915 | Anna Karenina | American | J. Gordon Edwards | Betty Nansen and Edward José | historical drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_(1915_film) | Anna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry her once she leave her husband.
However, Russian's society rejection makes her feel isolated, possessive and even paranoid due to her infid... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Anna_Karenina1915scene_newspaper.jpg |
1,915 | Birth of a Nation | American | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh | epic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_a_Nation | The film follows two juxtaposed families. One is the Northern Stonemans: abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman (based on the Reconstruction-era Representative Thaddeus Stevens),[14][15] his daughter, and two sons. The other is the Southern Camerons: Dr. Cameron, his wife, their three sons and two daughters. ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Birth_of_a_Nation_theatrical_poster.jpg |
1,915 | The Captive | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Blanche Sweet, House Peters | historical | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_(1915_film) | The Captive chronicles the life of a young woman named Sonia Martinovitch (Blanche Sweet) who lived during the midst of the Balkan Wars. She lives close to the Turkish border on a small farm in Montenegro with her older brother Marko Martinovich (Page Peters) and younger brother Milo (Gerald Ward). Nearby, a Turkish no... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/TheCaptive-19150pamphletfront.jpg |
1,915 | Carmen | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid | adventure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1915_Cecil_B._DeMille_film) | Don José, an officer of the law, is seduced by the gypsy girl Carmen, in order to facilitate her clan's smuggling endeavors. Don José becomes obsessed, turning to violent crime himself in order to keep the attention of Carmen. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Carmen_%28DeMille%29_film_poster.jpg |
1,915 | The Champion | American | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin | comedy short | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Champion_(1915_film) | In this comedy, Charlie Chaplin has a companion--a pet bulldog. Walking along a street with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes the training camp of an enormous fighter named Spike Dugan. Outside the camp is a large, painted advertisement which states Dugan is seeking sparring partners ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/CC_The_Champion_1915.jpg |
1,915 | The Cheat | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheat_(1915_film) | Socialite Edith Hardy (Ward) has extravagant tastes. Her stockbroker husband Richard (Dean), with all of his money tied up in a very promising investment, insists she send back an expensive dress she has just bought. When she asks an acquaintance what he could do with $10,000, he assures her he could double it overnigh... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/The_Cheat_FilmPoster.jpeg |
1,915 | Chimmie Fadden Out West | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Victor Moore | comedy, western | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimmie_Fadden_Out_West | Chimmie is sent out west as part of a scam by a railroad company. He is to pretend to find gold, then retreat as the company takes advantage. Things do not go as planned. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Chimmie_Fadden_Out_West_-_newspaper_scene_-_1916.jpg |
1,915 | Enoch Arden | American | Christy Cabanne | Alfred Paget, Lillian Gish | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Arden_(1915_film) | Based on a summary in a film magazine,[2] Enoch, Annie, and Walter grow up as friends. Later, Annie decides to marry Enoch, but Walter, though bitter about the decision, remains their friend. Enoch and Annie have two children. Then business takes Enoch on a sailing voyage, which he states will take less than one year, ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Enoch_Arden_%281915%29_-_Wedding.jpg |
1,915 | A Fool There Was | American | Frank Powell | Theda Bara, Edward Jose | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fool_There_Was_(1915_film) | John Schuyler (Edward José), a rich Wall Street lawyer and diplomat, is a husband and a devoted family man. He is sent to England on a diplomatic mission without his wife and daughter. On the ship he meets the "Vampire woman" (Theda Bara) who uses her charms to seduce men, only to leave after ruining their lives.
Comp... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Fooltherewas1915movieposter.jpg |
1,915 | Inspiration | American | George Foster Platt | Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_(1915_film) | A young sculptor searches for the perfect model to inspire his work. He finds a poverty-stricken girl who he thinks is the one he has been looking for. When she wanders off, he visits all the famous statues in Manhattan hoping to find her again. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Inspiration_%281915%29_Audrey_Munson_and_Thomas_A_Curran.jpg |
1,915 | The Italian | American | Reginald Barker | George Beban, Clara Williams | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_(1915_film) | The film tells the story of Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti. Donnetti is a poor, but happy, gondolier in Venice, Italy. Beppo falls in love with Annette Ancello, but her father, Trudo, wants her to marry another suitor, one who is a successful businessman. If Beppo can prove himself within a year, Trudo agrees to allow him to ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/TheItalian-moviepamphlet-1915.jpg |
1,915 | Pool Sharks | American | Edwin Middleton | W. C. Fields | comedy short | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_Sharks | Following a standard style of the era, the film is a romantic slapstick comedy short. Fields and his rival (played by Bud Ross) vie over the affections of a woman. When their antics get out of hand at a picnic, it is decided that they should play a game of pool. Both of them are pool sharks, and after the game turns in... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Poolsharkserror.png |
1,915 | The Raven | American | Charles Brabin | Henry Walthall | biography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven_(1915_film) | The film begins by tracing Poe's ancestral heritage before Poe himself is born. After the loss of his parents, Poe is taken in by the John and Francis Allan in Richmond, Virginia. The film then jumps ahead about 15 years to Poe's time at the University of Virginia. Due to debts from playing cards and a growing interest... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Theraven-scene-newspaper1916.jpg |
1,915 | The Soul of Broadway | American | Herbert Brenon | Valeska Suratt | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Broadway | As described in a film magazine,[3] La Valencia (Suratt), a stage beauty, has ensnared a young man who steals in order to shower her with the luxuries that she demands. He is caught and, after serving a 5-year term, emerges from prison a gray haired man. La Valencia comes across him again, and her passion revives. She ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Thesoulofbroadway-1915-pamphlet.jpg |
1,915 | The Toast of Death | American | Thomas H. Ince | Louise Glaum | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toast_of_Death | Mademoiselle Poppea (played by Glaum) is the leading ballerina of the Imperial Ballet in Calcutta, India. Her beauty and charm bring to her many admirers, among them a British soldier, Captain Drake (played by Keenan), and an Indian prince, Yar Khan (played by Mayall), of the Bengalese Dragoons.
Although she loves Dra... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Thetoastofdeath-1914-poster.jpg |
1,915 | The Tramp | American | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin | comedy short | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tramp_(film) | The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) finds the girl of his dreams and works on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has a boyfriend. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging ... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/The_Tramp_poster.jpg |
1,915 | The Warrens of Virginia | American | Cecil B. DeMille | Blanche Sweet, James Neill | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warrens_of_Virginia_(1915_film) | As the American Civil War begins, Ned Burton leaves his Southern love, Agatha Warren, and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/The_Warrens_of_Virginia_FilmPoster.jpeg |
1,915 | Work | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance | comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(1915_film) | Charlie is an assistant to Izzy A. Wake, a painter and paper hanger. The two men are on their way to a job via a cart. The boss rides in the cart, leisurely sitting atop all their paraphernalia, while Charlie is hitched to the cart like a mule. The boss also treats Charlie like a mule, beating him with a stick to get h... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Chaplin_and_Purviance_in_Work.jpg |
1,916 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | American | Stuart Paton | Lois Alexander, Curtis Benton, Wallace Clarke, Allen Holubar | action adventure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea_(1916_film) | A strange giant "sea creature" has been rampaging the seas. The American naval ship Abraham Lincoln is sent to investigate, but is rammed by "the creature" which turns out to be The Nautilus, the fantastic submarine of the enigmatic Captain Nemo, and "Rudderless, the 'Abraham Lincoln' drifts on". Then, in "A strange re... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/20%2C000_Leagues_under_the_Sea_-_movie_ad_-_newspaper1917.jpg |
1,916 | The Abandonment | American | Donald MacDonald | Forrest Taylor, Harry von Meter, Helene Rosson | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abandonment | Dr. Edmund B. Stewart is a talented young physician who is working hard to build both his professional reputation and practice. He is engaged to Emily Thurston whose father is said to be wealthy. The Thurstons move in the best social circles and Emily is congratulated because her fiance is a successful man. Emily loves... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Abandonment_1.jpg |
1,916 | The Aryan | American | William S. Hart | William S. Hart, Louise Glaum, Bessie Love | western drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aryan | A hard working miner, Steve Denton (played by Hart), has become rich from years of prospecting. He takes his fortune and leaves to visit his ill mother, Mrs. Denton (played by Claire).
In the town of Yellow Ridge, however, he is detained by a seductive dance hall girl named Trixie (played by Glaum). Also known as "the... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Aryan_poster.jpg |
1,916 | The Bondman | American | Edgar Lewis | William Farnum, Dorothy Bernard, L.O. Hart, | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bondman_(1916_film) | The narrative hinges on Jason's vow to wreak vengeance on his father for abandoning his mother. But his father dies, and Jason turns his desire for revenge against Sunlocks, his father's son of another wife. Both Sunlocks and Jason are in love with Greeba, daughter of the governor of the Isle of Man. Sunlocks and Jason... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/The_Bondman_%281916%29_-_1.jpg |
1,916 | Civilization | American | Reginald Barker | Howard C. Hickman, Enid Markey, George Fisher | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(film) | The film opens with the outbreak of a war in the previously peaceful kingdom of Wredpryd. Count Ferdinand is the inventor of a new submarine who is assigned to command the new ship in battle. The King of Wredpryd orders the Count to sink the "ProPatria" ("for my country"), a civilian ship that is believed to be carryin... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Civilization_Poster.jpg |
1,916 | A Daughter of the Gods | American | Herbert Brenon | Annette Kellerman, Hal De Forrest | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Daughter_of_the_Gods | A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/A_Daughter_of_the_Gods.jpg |
1,916 | Divorce and the Daughter | American | Frederick Sullivan | Florence La Badie, Edwin Stanley, Ethelmary Oakland | drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_and_the_Daughter | Alicia is a poor girl living in the city with her family. When her father receives an inheritance, he is able to follow his dream of becoming an artist and moves his family near an artist's colony in the country. There he falls prey to a scheming widow, and he and his wife separate. Alicia, meanwhile, has become involv... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Advertisement_for_1916_silent_film_Divorce_and_the_Daughter.jpg |
1,916 | Fatty and Mabel Adrift | American | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand | short comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_and_Mabel_Adrift | The story involves Arbuckle as a farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. They have their honeymoon with Fatty's dog Luke, at a cottage on the seashore. At high tide that night, Al St. John (Fatty's rival) and his confederates set the cottage adrift. Fatty and Mabel awaken the next morning to find themselves surround... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Fatty_and_Mabel_Adrift_1916.jpg |
1,916 | The Fireman | American | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon | short comedy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fireman_(1916_film) | A beautiful girl's father (Bacon) arranges with the local fire chief (Campbell) to have his house burn down so he can collect the insurance money. In exchange for the chief's complicity in the arson, the father will permit the fire chief to marry his daughter.
However, a real fire breaks out elsewhere in the town. The... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/%27The_Fireman%27.jpg |
1,916 | Hell's Hinges | American | William S. Hart, Charles Swickard, Clifford Smith | William S. Hart, Clara Williams | unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Hinges | Hell's Hinges tells the story of a weak-willed minister, Rev. Bob Henley (played by Standing), who comes to a wild and debauched frontier town with his sister, Faith (played by Williams). The owner of the saloon, Silk Miller (played by Hollingsworth), and his accomplices sense trouble and encourage the local rowdies to... | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Hell%27s_Hinges.jpg |
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