Movies

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen ...

On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the ...

Not long before marine officer van Hauen goes off to war and heavy-heartedly leaves his family, he coincidentally discovers that his wife has a ...

Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other ...

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A ...

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking ...

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress ...

Graehme, Ned Stewart’s father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and ...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she’s to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by ...

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic ...

When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he’s wounded in battle and taken ...

The classic tale of Dante’s journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. ...

A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother’s death and sends her off to school. After she’s grown, he encourages her to ...

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. ...

A hypnotist tricks his patients. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed, Gaston Breteau, ...

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

Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband ...

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.

Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former’s uniform and joins in the ...

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $500. He sneaks away from his wife to make a ...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of ...

Rev. Warren Addington, the pastor of an eastern evangelical church, is left a will wherein is given the location of a valuable mine in Montana, ...

Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. ...

When pretty Molly Martin comes out to the west to teach school, she is beset by many admirers. But the most persistent, and as fate often wills ...

A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.

In a mansion full of secret rooms and passageways, people are dying shortly after seeing the ghost of a woman in gray, as an old legend dictates. ...

William is drawn to Edward’s wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to ...