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

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can’t stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

No overview available

A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin’s only lost film as no copy is known to…

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…

Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah’s objections.

Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.

Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing…

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

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…

Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.

Based on Gogol’s story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit…

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones…

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.

John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa, near the border of the jungle. The monotony of their lives is…

A romantic love story between Indians and white people.

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.

A naughty boy paints his grandfather’s glasses while he sleeps. Upon awakening, the grandfather is frightened by the imagined blindness, creating a series of confusions in the house. Brazil’s first…

A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.

Professor Bean’s Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.

Sverre Halvorsen draws the poles to celebrate Roald Amundsen reaching the south pole.

The story, which only runs about 45 minutes, involves a man recently released from prison whose fingerprints from the police records turn up in a house where an unconscious woman…

Gambler wrecks train in order to kill racehorse.

Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do…

Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as…

Lost educational film on the effects of alcohol abuse.

No overview found.

A poor woman, with no money for Christmas presents, tucks her three children in for the night, on Christmas Eve. Later, a poor, old beggar comes to her door and…

A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove himself to his father and father-in-law as an editor.

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…

The U.S. Army orders a small band of Indians to move their camp out of U.S. territory, an order that Sergeant Stewart explains to the Indian chief, Dark Buffalo. The…

A hunted bandit cleverly outwits the sheriff after a thrilling chase over rocks and sandhills. Reaching the Point Loma Lighthouse, he introduces himself as a revenue man to the lighthouse…

No overview found

A short Western about the tragic romance between a sheriff and the daughter of a horse thief.

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.

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…