The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.

A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child. A copy exists in the Archives du Film du CNC according to…

The story of a young woman living in the wilderness.

A 1916 film directed by Allan Dwan.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Based on the novel Mr Meeson’s Will by H. Rider Haggard. The plot concerns a shipwrecked author and her publisher. Copies exist in the George Eastman Museum and the former…

Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson.

Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.

A young wild girl Fanchon ( Mary Pickford ) lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon…

During ceasefire, young lieutenant Brenner gets permission to visit his old father. On his way he rescues an enemy officer from a mean ambush – a favour that will later…

Survives in its entirety at the Cinemateca Do Museu De Arte Moderna.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie’s father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he…

Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is the foundation for the iron magnate’s financial…

A sad story about how a working-class man tries, and succeeds, to become a writer, but finds difficulty in fitting into that world.

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and…

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life in luxury instead of her badly paid job in a sweatshop. Her dreams come true, when she draws the attention of Victor, a…

A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise Sthar steals military documents, Julius…

Based on Emile Zola’s novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers’ strike in northern France in the 1860s.

The film is about a poor married couple living in New York City. The husband works as a musician and must travel often for work. When returning, his wallet is…

After her father dies, Chloe, played by Edith Storey, is left alone in the world. She is discovered and taken home to their cave by brothers Dagban and Eric, who…

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

The old lighthouse keeper lives peacefully with his two daughters, who are both engaged to fisherman. One night he receives a message announcing the shipwreck…

Thanhouser’s version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Silent film drama..

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master’s daughter after her mother’s death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a…

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle,…

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city’s spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, “Mother, there in the big city…

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.