Most Viewed Year 1916

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Allen Holubar

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American silent features made by a woman. Only two reels of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Violet Wong

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mae Marsh

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Cresté

Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his family home. The director of a travelling circus takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernd Aldor

Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diana Karenne

Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francelia Billington

Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special effects, was released in 1916. Telling the story of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alberto Pasquali

Foreign powers keep getting their hands on U.S. military secrets, so the head of the American diplomatic corps calls in his nephew Dick Stansbury to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis X. Bushman