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.

Just as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is testimony to German silent film art, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolises both the birth of the Australian film industry and…

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who’s also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they help each other escape.

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight…

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand’s famous play performing a scene from his…

“This is a replica of the famous duel with rapiers between Emile Zola, the novelist, and Henri Rochefort, the statesman. The duel takes place on the identical ground where the…

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.