After a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe’s family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an Irish immigrant to America, and his father, David Poe, Jr., the poet’s life is…

Angered by his son Jack’s wild behavior, Mr. Bennett sends him to college on a limited allowance. Jack is engaged to Irma Brentwood, the daughter of his father’s partner, however,…

When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant’s playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor ex-convict trying to go straight.

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.

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt’s hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.

A medical operation transforms a female criminal into an honest woman.

Jim Maitland (Gordon Mullen) loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors “Keno” Bates (William S. Hart)…

Enemy agents under the leadership of “Emanon” conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The…

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into…

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master’s assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.

An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a snake, the outlaw risks his life by riding into town…

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…

A young girl, pursued by a band of conspirators, hides in a movie theatre where she watches the film Cabiria. She determines to seek the aid of that film’s strongman,…

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…

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel’s father’s place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner’s son in exchange for tearing…

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point…

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

A domestic comedy about the McGinis family–husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.

A domestic comedy about the McGinis family–husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society’s concern with material goods as an indicator of…

Reportedly the earliest-known US silent stag or pornographic film, A Free Ride includes explicit sex scenes of a wealthy man having sex with two female hitchhikers by the side of…

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…

Third release in the series ‘La vie de N.S. Jésus-Christ’ (1914).

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.

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.

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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…