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1. The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Family
The Whole Dam Family and The Dam Dog is a popular fad which has been widely advertised by lithographs and souvenir mailing cards, and has recently been made the subject of a sketch in a New... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: William Courtenay, Frank Daniels, May Irwin, Charlotte Walker
Votes: 751
2. New York Subway (1905)
Unrated | 6 min | Short, Documentary
In one long take, the camera shows us the journey of a subway train as it makes its way from Union Square to the old Grand Central Station.
Director: G.W. Bitzer
Votes: 814
3. Coney Island at Night (1905)
Not Rated | 4 min | Documentary, Short
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 369
4. Rescued by Rover (1905)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Directors: Lewin Fitzhamon, Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Blair, May Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Cecil M. Hepworth
Votes: 1,321
5. The Mermaid (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,276
6. The Black Hand (1906)
11 min | Short, Action, Crime
Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace McCutcheon | Stars: Anthony O'Sullivan, Robert G. Vignola
Votes: 276
7. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Star: J. Stuart Blackton
Votes: 1,462
8. The White Caps (1905)
Not Rated | 12 min | Drama, Short
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both ... See full summary »
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Kate Toncray, John R. Cumpson, Arthur V. Johnson, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 195
9. The Policemen's Little Run (1907)
6 min | Comedy, Short
A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.
Director: Ferdinand Zecca
Votes: 678
10. The Miller's Daughter (1905)
Not Rated | 13 min | Drama, Short
Hazel, the miller's daughter, is courted by a country boy and a sophisticated city boy. Her father favors the country boy, but she elopes with the city boy. Before they can marry, his wife ... See full summary »
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 162
11. The Witch (1906)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Fantasy
A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 763
12. The 'Teddy' Bears (1907)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Seven toy teddy bears of varying sizes suddenly come to life, getting in all sorts of merry misadventures.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 669
13. That Fatal Sneeze (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older ... See full summary »
Director: Lewin Fitzhamon | Stars: Thurston Harris, Gertie Potter
Votes: 623
14. Laughing Gas (I) (1907)
Not Rated | 9 min | Comedy, Short
A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger catches the laughter from her.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Bertha Regustus, Edward Boulden, Mr. La Montte, Mr. Sullivan
Votes: 241
15. The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,411
16. Le récit du colonel (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
Legendary French director Louis Feuillade does what he does best in THE COLONEL'S ACCOUNT. What begins as the simple telling of a story erupts into chaos as the tale becomes reality. One ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Alice Tissot, Maurice Vinot, Renée Carl
Votes: 203
17. Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
Not Rated | 8 min | Action, Short
A family is terrified when an eagle carries off its young child.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Miss Earle, Jinnie Frazer, D.W. Griffith, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 860
18. The Thieving Hand (1908)
Unrated | 5 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Short
A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Star: Paul Panzer
Votes: 687
19. Troubles of a Grass Widower (1908)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Comedy
A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to himself. But he quickly discovers that even ... See full summary »
Director: Max Linder | Star: Max Linder
Votes: 428
20. A Fantasy (1908)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 2,833
21. Those Awful Hats (1909)
Not Rated | 5 min | Comedy, Short
Set in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals' hats obscuring the movie patron's line of vision.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Linda Arvidson, John R. Cumpson, Flora Finch, George Gebhardt
Votes: 1,284
22. The Country Doctor (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce
Votes: 762
23. A Love Affair in Toyland (1908)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cast of stick figures plays out a series of comic vignettes.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 267
24. Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909)
Unrated | 5 min | Comedy, Short, Fantasy
A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Paul Panzer, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 1,026
25. The Redman's View (1909)
14 min | Short, Western
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Owen Moore, Lottie Pickford, Kate Bruce, Charles Craig
Votes: 419
26. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
Not Rated | 13 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Short
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Z. Leonard
Votes: 1,640
27. The Unchanging Sea (1910)
Not Rated | 14 min | Drama, Short
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan, Mary Pickford
Votes: 880
28. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, War
A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy West, Grace Henderson, Charles West
Votes: 581
29. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 1,338
30. Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, George Nichols
Votes: 406
31. Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Philip, her former suitor. Enoch is rescued ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, Robert Harron
Votes: 367
32. Her Crowning Glory (1911)
Unrated | 14 min | Comedy, Short
A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Helene Costello, Kate Price
Votes: 226
33. Troubles of a Grasswidower (1912)
TV-G | 10 min | Short, Comedy
An elegant dandy - he of suit, vest, tie, and top hat - ignores his wife at dinner in favor of his newspaper, so she tearfully leaves him and returns home to mother. He is ecstatic, dancing... See full summary »
Director: Max Linder | Stars: Max Linder, Delphine Renot, Jane Renouardt
Votes: 325
34. The Mender of Nets (1912)
16 min | Short, Romance
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles West, Marguerite Marsh, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 254
35. The Sunbeam (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Drama, Short, Romance
In a tenement boarding-house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing that the bachelor... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Ynez Seabury, Kate Bruce, Claire McDowell, Dell Henderson
Votes: 418
36. Only in the Way (1911)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
A crippled little girl lives at home with her parents and her grandmother. She loves her grandmother deeply, but her parents can't get along with the old woman, and the girl is torn between both sides.
Star: Marie Eline
Votes: 90
37. Madame's Cravings (1907)
4 min | Comedy, Short
A heavily pregnant woman has a series of irrepressible cravings while walking with her family.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 517
38. The Night Before Christmas (1905)
9 min | Animation, Short, Family
It's December 24th, and 'Santa Claus' is busy feeding his reindeer and finishing up the toys that he will soon deliver. Meanwhile, the children in a large family hang their stockings over ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 663
39. The Kleptomaniac (1905)
Not Rated | 8 min | Crime, Drama, Short
A well-dressed woman steals several items from a department store. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two small children steals a loaf of bread out of desperation, and she is quickly caught and arrested. In court, what penalty will each face?
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Aline Boyd, Phineas Nairs, Jane Stewart, George Voijere
Votes: 417
40. Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (1905)
2 min | Short, Music
Dranem performs "The True Jiu Jitsu".
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Dranem
Votes: 180
41. The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short
Despite all methods of instantaneously masking a clandestine gambling den's shady activities, the risk of getting caught is high, especially when the police thirsts for success. But, sometimes, indulging in pure fun is just too tempting.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 867
42. A Crazy Composer (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A composer alone in his music room has a better imagination while asleep than awake.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 306
43. The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy
In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 993
44. The Drunken Mattress (1906)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy
Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.
Directors: Romeo Bosetti, Alice Guy | Star: Romeo Bosetti
Votes: 258
45. The Stepmother (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Drama
Alice Guy (later known as Alice Guy-Blaché) tackles the subject of bad parenting in this dramatic, tear-jerking short.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 163
46. A Sticky Woman (1906)
2 min | Short, Comedy
An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 380
47. A Desperate Crime (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awaits.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 301
48. The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,368
49. Three American Beauties (1906)
Unrated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Images of a rose, a young woman, and the American flag.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Star: Deyo
Votes: 419
50. The '?' Motorist (1906)
3 min | Fantasy, Short, Comedy
A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 1,281
51. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Star: Jack Brawn
Votes: 1,993
52. A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus (1907)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Family
A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.
Directors: J. Searle Dawley, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gitchner Hartman, Mr. Lehapman, Bessie Schrednecky, William Sorelle
Votes: 209
53. L'enfant de la barricade (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
A tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 345
54. A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
The library of a modern home is shown, husband, wife and child each occupied in their particular diversions. The maid is called in, who dresses the child in street garments, and the two ... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Alice Guy
Votes: 222
55. The Glue (1907)
3 min | Short, Comedy
This is the story of a pot of glue and the over interfering boy. Finding a pot of glue, the lad immediately proceeds to apply it to everything in sight. Accordingly, the stairway, lawn seat... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 301
56. The Physician of the Castle (1908)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his house and menace his wife and child. By ... See full summary »
Votes: 352
57. The Puppet's Nightmare (1908)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short
The nightmare of Émile Cohl's chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 290
58. The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short
The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Georges Méliès
Votes: 226
59. The Curtain Pole (1909)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Comedy
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he... See full summary »
Directors: D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett | Stars: Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 361
60. Le printemps - Épisode 1: L'éveil des sources - L'éveil des nids (1909)
Not Rated | 7 min | Fantasy, Short
Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Henri Duval, Christiane Mandelys, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 176
61. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,747
62. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
12 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In ancient Athens, four young lovers escape into the woods. Meanwhile, tradesmen rehearse a play. All of them suffer from the shenanigans of mischievous fairies.
Directors: Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Walter Ackerman, Charles Chapman, Dolores Costello, Helene Costello
Votes: 368
63. Over Silent Paths (1910)
16 min | Short, Drama, Western
A lone miner and his daughter make the journey to California by prairie schooner.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Marion Leonard, Dell Henderson, W. Chrystie Miller, Arthur V. Johnson
Votes: 70
64. The Hasher's Delirium (1910)
5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere bring heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has a beautiful dream in which two angels come and play to him on... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 530
65. Wilful Peggy (1910)
17 min | Romance, Short, Comedy
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Clara T. Bracy, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell
Votes: 228
66. The Usurer (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Drama, Short
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Grace Henderson, Alfred Paget, Anthony O'Sullivan
Votes: 281
67. The Four Little Tailors (1910)
7 min | Short, Comedy
The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor says he will give his daughter to the ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 60
68. His Trust: The Faithful Devotion and Self-Sacrifice of an Old Negro Servant (1911)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, War
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 killed in an exciting battle sequence, ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Dell Henderson, Claire McDowell, Edith Haldeman
Votes: 652
69. What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)
17 min | Drama, Short
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: W. Chrystie Miller, Claire McDowell, Adolph Lestina, George Nichols
Votes: 299
70. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
Directors: Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Winsor McCay, John Bunny, Maurice Costello, George McManus
Votes: 1,849
71. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Western
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Joseph Graybill, Francis J. Grandon
Votes: 289
72. Le trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Not Rated | 25 min | Drama, Short
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, René Navarre, Paul Manson, Jean Devalde
Votes: 139
73. The Miser's Heart (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Ynez Seabury, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 301
74. For His Son (1912)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles Hill Mailes, Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 424
75. Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress (1912)
14 min | Short, Western
A new schoolteacher arrives at Snakeville and immediately all the marriageable men of the county come a-courtin'. The affair finally resolves about Jack Heyworth and Broncho Billy, but it ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Brinsley Shaw, Augustus Carney, Arthur Mackley
Votes: 69
76. A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Wife plots to cure her husband of his inveterate poker playing.
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge
Votes: 395
77. Falling Leaves (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Magda Foy
Votes: 1,652
78. The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Alfred Paget, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 1,299
79. The Female of the Species (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 329
80. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
15 min | Short, Drama
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Dorothy Bernard, Edwin August, Blanche Sweet
Votes: 331
81. A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Crime, Short, Comedy
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, Phillip Orin Parmelee, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 223
82. The Narrow Road (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Alfred Paget
Votes: 159
83. Le coeur et l'argent (1912)
18 min | Drama, Short
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man. Raymond, the young woman's fiancé, is devastated. After a few ... See full summary »
Directors: Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret | Stars: Suzanne Grandais, Renée Carl, Raymond Lyon, Paul Manson
Votes: 169
84. An Unseen Enemy (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Crime, Short, Thriller
A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron
Votes: 973
85. The Confederate Ironclad (1912)
Unrated | 16 min | Drama, War, Short
Lieutenant Yancey's southern sweetheart, Rose, is jealous of Elinor, a northern girl, who is visiting her aunt Mary de Lane. This jealousy is excited by an invitation which Yancey receives ... See full summary »
Director: Kenean Buel | Stars: Guy Coombs, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hal Clements, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 237
86. The Painted Lady (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce
Votes: 644
87. The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 3,217
88. A Grocery Clerk's Romance (1912)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy
The grocery clerk's sympathies are aroused by the sight of hard-working Mrs. Brown, whose shiftless husband sits around and smokes, and spends his time at the saloon. The clerk wins Mrs. ... See full summary »
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Ford Sterling, James C. Morton, Gus Pixley, Lincoln Plumer
Votes: 168
89. The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
Unrated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Votes: 875
90. A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (1912)
8 min | Comedy, Short
A man is arrested while posing as a woman and is saved by suffragettes.
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, Miriam Nesbitt, Ethel Browning
Votes: 92
91. Making an American Citizen (1912)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Lee Beggs, Blanche Cornwall
Votes: 438
92. From the Submerged (1912)
11 min | Short, Drama
The man, a poor vagrant, is about to cast himself into the river when he is stopped and started upon the right road by the poor girl. He discovers his father is advertising to learn his ... See full summary »
Director: Theodore Wharton | Stars: E.H. Calvert, Ruth Stonehouse, William Walters, Joseph Allen Sr.
Votes: 98
93. The Totville Eye (1912)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy
A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
Director: C.J. Williams | Stars: Walter Edwin, Yale Boss, Robert Brower, Edward O'Connor
Votes: 92
94. The New York Hat (1912)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama
A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 933
95. A Christmas Accident (1912)
Not Rated | 15 min | Drama, Short
The Giltons are next-door neighbors to the Biltons. The houses are exactly alike and adjoin each other; the back yards are not even separated by a fence. Gilton is a crabbed old money-maker... See full summary »
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William Wadsworth, Mrs. William Bechtel, Augustus Phillips, Ida Williams
Votes: 306
96. The Burglar's Dilemma (1912)
15 min | Short, Drama
In this latter-day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Votes: 422
97. The Better Man (II) (1912)
10 min | Drama, Short
Jim Saunders' fondness for gambling makes him neglect his wife and child. One night while he's at the saloon, Miguel Gomez, a Mexican outlaw for whom $1,000 reward is offered, enters Jim's ... See full summary »
Director: Rollin S. Sturgeon | Stars: Robert Thornby, George Stanley, Anne Schaefer, Charles Bennett
Votes: 40
98. La hantise (1912)
23 min | Short
A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband's voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, René Navarre, Miss Édith, Henri Jullien
Votes: 134
99. Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (1912)
24 min | Fantasy, Short, Romance
George Melies's second adaption of the classical fairy-tale, from 1912.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Louise Lagrange, Jacques Feyder, Marthe Vinot, Georges Méliès
Votes: 255
100. At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy, Western
The mining community of Bear Track Gulch must adapt its ways when it receives its first female visitor.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William West, Herbert Prior, George Lessey, Bigelow Cooper
Votes: 100
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