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Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugen Sandow

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Elmer Booth

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Powell

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Blanche Sweet

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mary Pickford

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: W. Chrystie Miller

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Heinson

Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles West

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Sennett

An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Hill Mailes

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

Genre: History

Cast: Wilfred Lucas

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

Genre: Action

Cast: Wilfred Lucas

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Florence Lawrence

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ynez Seabury

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles West