1918 – Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut. This work is extremely important not only for Russian cinema; it became a landmark in the history of the world’s cinematograph. For the first…

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by…

A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.

A poor shopgirl is offered a “good time” for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the…

The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.

In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her…

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe’s wife’s jewelry.

The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni. The film features the first onscreen performance from Vittorio De Sica.

Snitch steals Ginger’s baseball tickets and takes Ginger’s girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. The film is notable…

In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He’s still imitating Chaplin, but this time he’s playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances…

The first silent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. It is considered a lost film.

Flower girls hand baskets of flowers to Queen Alexandra on ‘Rose Day’. Included on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.

Incomplete prints exist at the Library of Congress and the National Archives Of Canada.

Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was…

Unknown if lost.

A physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The film depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted…

The movie dramatizes the last Indian uprising in Argentina, which happened in the north of the country, in the Chaco region, in the early 1900s.

Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the track;…

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.

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When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is…

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

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…

After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

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.

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with…

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…

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the…

“Midnight at the Old Mill” has some nice “Guignol” touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.

Short animal comedy starring chimpanzees as Napoleon and Sally.

The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his…