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1. Post No Bills (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 506
France. The film was recovered in 2004. Only 70 sec and directed by Georges Méliès who was an innovator in the use of special effects. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
2. Arrivée d'un train - Gare de Joinville (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A steam train of mixed carriages (freight and passenger) arrives at a station and we see the beginnings of passengers leaving then entering the train.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 118
3. Watering the Flowers (1896)
1 min | Short, Comedy
This lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 84
4. Gardener Burning Weeds (1896)
Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features a gardener.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
5. A Merry-Go-Round (1896)
Short
Very little is known of this lost Georges Melies film, but the title indicates it may have featured children riding a merry-go-round.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 35
6. Les blanchisseuses (1896)
Short
This lost film presumably features women washing clothing.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 34
7. Fêtes franco-russes: Paris, la foule sur la place de l'Opéra (1896)
1 min | Short
A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.
Director: Alexandre Promio
Votes: 182
8. Place du théâtre français (1896)
Documentary, Short
This lost film presumably shows the Place du Théâtre-Français.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 29
9. Coronation of a Village Maiden (1896)
Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features a coronation of the rosary, or a celebration of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 28
10. Bébé et fillettes (1896)
Documentary, Short
Little is known about this lost film, which presumably features young baby girls.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georgette Méliès
Votes: 35
15. French Regiment Going to the Parade (1896)
Documentary, Short
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 31
17. The Bohemian Encampment (1896)
Documentary, Short
Very little is known of this lost film; according to the title it featured a gypsy camp.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 36
19. The X-Ray Fiend (1897)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 1,049
British short comedy directed by George Albert Smith who was the first British director to use special effects.
20. Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears. Holmes initially attempts to ignore the event by ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Marvin | Star: Anonymous
Votes: 779
The first recorded detective film and the first to feature Sherlock Holmes. A paper copy was identified in 1968 in the Library of Congress Paper Print archive by Michael Pointer, a historian of Sherlock Holmes films. It was transferred to 16 mm film in the Library of Congress collection. Only 30 sec this American film directed by Arthur Marvin.
21. The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
1 min | Short, Drama
A child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 209
Made in Great Britain and lost since 1954, the film was rediscovered in 2012 and is the oldest surviving film that features a Charles Dickens character. Only 60 sec British drama directed by George Albert Smith.
22. Hiawatha (1903)
15 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.
Director: Joe Rosenthal
Believed to be the first Canadian fiction film.
23. A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself (1904)
2 min | Short
A magician divides himself into two people. The doubles perform tricks before transforming back into one person.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 23
2 minute long film, discovered in 2016 at the Czech National Film Archive under a donated reel with a different name.
One reel (10 minutes) was recently found of this documentary of London life. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (where the fragment was found) states it was identified by British film scholar Ian Christie as being from Living London, but Urban's website claims that this is from the later documentary.Released in Australia in 1906 it was a sensation, seen by over 500,000 people.
25. Salaviinanpolttajat (1907)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Two local men who are making moonshine in the woods. A customer comes to them, and while sampling the product they start a game of cards, which eventually leads to a fight. While the fight ... See full summary »
Directors: Teuvo Puro, Louis Sparre | Stars: Eero Kilpi, Teuvo Puro, Teppo Raikas, Alex Rautio
Votes: 14
The first Finnish fiction film. Some sources also consider it to be the first Russian fiction film, as Finland was a part of the Russian Empire until 1917.
26. Matsumoto Fragment (1907)
1 min | Animation, Short
A boy writes on a board, then tips his hat to the viewer.
Votes: 387
The oldest animated film in Japan, lasting only three seconds. The piece of film was discovered in Kyoto on July 31, 2005. Japanese animated filmstrip that is the oldest known work of animation from Japan.
27. The Electric Hotel (1908)
8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
Director: Segundo de Chomón | Stars: Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu
Votes: 1,134
Spain, thought to be lost but was later recovered. Now in Filmoteca Española film archive. Spanish comedy-fantasy film directed by Segundo de Chomón. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
28. The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908)
120 min | Fantasy, Adventure
Lost film that adapted L. Frank Baum's books "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz" and "John Dough and the Cherub". Only the narration script, read by L. Frank Baum himself, and production stills survive.
Directors: Francis Boggs, Otis Turner | Stars: L. Frank Baum, Frank Burns, George E. Wilson, Wallace Illington
Votes: 73
First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels. Shown only in roadshow engagements as part of a live theater presentation, the print decomposed and was discarded
29. The Music Master (1908)
Short
What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph story. Herr Von Mitzel, a disciple of ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace McCutcheon | Star: D.W. Griffith
Most of D. W. Griffith's early appearances as an actor in Biograph films have been preserved, minus this title.
The short film exists in the British Film Institute archive. American film
31. La Tosca (1909)
Short, Drama
Rome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist sympathizer. When the latter helps ... See full summary »
Directors: André Calmettes, Charles Le Bargy | Stars: Cécile Sorel, René Alexandre, Charles Le Bargy, Charles Mosnier
Currently in the BFI National Archive. French film directed by André Calmettes
32. Frankenstein (1910)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 4,742
A print was bought by a film collector in the 1950s, who was not aware of its rarity until decades later. 16 minute film and the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, made by Edison Studios.
33. The Glove (1910)
Short
Director: Luigi Maggi | Stars: Giuseppe Gray, Mary Cleo Tarlarini, Mario Voller-Buzzi, Alberto Capozzi
A print bought by a private collector from a recycling centre. United Kingdom. (2015) Directed by Luigi Maggi
American directed by Thomas H. Ince
35. Their First Misunderstanding (1911)
10 min | Short, Drama
Tom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas H. Ince, George Loane Tucker | Stars: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Thomas H. Ince, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 37
The first film that credited Pickford by name. Found in 2006 in a New Hampshire barn.[13] United States American drama film directed by Thomas H. Ince. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
36. Maid or Man (1911)
Short, Drama
Jimmie Keene is an ardent devotee of the manly art of self-defense and never misses a boxing match when he can help it. Jimmie's father, however, being a deacon in the church naturally ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Charles Arling
AmericanDirected by Thomas H. Ince
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37. A Manly Man (1911)
10 min | Short, Drama
Norman Duncan, a civil engineer in the employ of the United States government, loves Elinor Williams and they are happy in their plighted troth. Duncan is ordered to the Philippines to take... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: William E. Shay, Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Isabel Rea
Votes: 23
American Directed by Thomas H. Ince
38. In the Sultan's Garden (1911)
Short, Drama
Lieutenant Robbins, a young naval officer, sees Haydee the favored inmate of the sultan's harem and is smitten by her charms. She is interested in the handsome young American. She manages ... See full summary »
Directors: William H. Clifford, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: King Baggot, Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Isabel Rea
39. Richard III (1911)
23 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Benson | Stars: James Berry, Alfred Brydone, Kathleen Yorke, Murray Carrington
Votes: 228
The first known full-length William Shakespeare film was returned in 1996 by Oregon projectionist William Buffum, who admitted that he stole it and kept it for over thirty years.
40. In Night and Ice (1912)
30 min | Short, Action, Drama
On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Mime Misu | Stars: Waldemar Hecker, Mime Misu, Otto Rippert, Ernst Rückert
Votes: 281
The second Titanic movie, was presumed lost around 1914, but was found in the possession of a private film collector in Germany in 1998. Germany. German adventure-disaster drama film about the sinking of Titanic.
41. Under Two Flags (I) (1912)
Adventure, Romance, Short
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: William Russell, Katherine Horn, William Garwood, Florence La Badie
42. Poor Jake's Demise (1913)
Short, Comedy
Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Curtis | Stars: Max Asher, Daisy Small, Lon Chaney, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 30
A fragment was discovered in 2006 among several hundred other reels of film in an English collection. United States.
43. The Prisoner of Zenda (1913)
55 min | Adventure
King Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.
Directors: Hugh Ford, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence, Frazer Coulter
Votes: 51
Prints survive in the Library of Congress, and a partial print in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House. American, directed by Edwin S. Porter and Hugh Ford, Based on The Prisoner of Zenda 1894 novel by Edward E. Rice and Anthony Hope. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
Silver nitrate positive print recovered in 1996. England, UK.
45. When Lincoln Paid (1913)
Short, Drama
Abraham Lincoln is shown in his youth addressing an audience of villagers on a street corner. A terrific thunderstorm comes up, driving his auditors away, and Lincoln mounts his horse and ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Charles Edler, Jack Conway
Votes: 22
Was found in 2006 in a barn in New Hampshire that was going to be demolished. United States. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
46. En stærkere magt (1914)
Drama
Director: Hjalmar Davidsen | Stars: Enoch Aagaard, Augusta Blad, Vita Blichfeldt, Olaf Fønss
Preserved by the Danish Film Institute. Denmark.
47. The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914)
170 min | Drama
Episode 1: "The Perfect Truth" The day after Dolly Desmond had startled the community with the excellence of her graduation oration, Bobby North, a reporter on the local paper, suggested ... See full synopsis »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Mary Fuller, Yale Boss, Charles Ogle, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 70
Discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
48. Cruel, Cruel Love (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
A silly aristocrat who believes that he has been jilted attempts suicide but he is saved from death and reunited with his fiancée.
Directors: George Nichols, Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Eva Nelson
Votes: 1,446
Complete nitrate copy found in South America. United States.
49. The Girl Stage Driver (1914)
27 min | Short, Drama, Western
The old stage driver and his pretty daughter live happily in a prosperous mining town. The girl is devoted to her kind old father who has been the stage driver for several years. Needless ... See full summary »
Director: Webster Cullison | Stars: Norbert A. Myles, Edna Payne, Will E. Sheerer, Henry Stanley
Votes: 15
An incomplete 35mm positive print was discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
50. Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
65 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Meinert | Stars: Alwin Neuß, Friedrich Kühne, Hanni Weisse, Erwin Fichtner
Votes: 147
51. Pirates of the Plains (1914)
35 min | Short, Thriller, Western
Joe and Jim Webster, brothers, are as different as day and night. Jim is an honest and respected rancher; Joe is the ringleader of a desperate gang of horse thieves. At the State Fair, Jim ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Thayer | Stars: Joe Ryan, Josephine West, Colin Chase, Jack Donahoo
Complete nitrate copy found in Australia in 1996.
52. Salomy Jane (1914)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Western
The story opens with the arrival in Hangtown of Madison Clay and his daughter, Salomy Jane, who have emigrated all the way from Kentucky. Straightway the young men and bachelors of the camp... See full summary »
Directors: Lucius Henderson, William Nigh | Stars: Beatriz Michelena, House Peters, William Pike, Clara Beyers
Votes: 75
53. The Stain (1914)
Drama
Stevens, the bank clerk, is ambitious. His great desire is to become a lawyer. He stays at the bank at night to study, but is unable to take a course at college owing to his poverty. He ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Edward José, Thurlow Bergen, Virginia Pearson, Eleanor Woodruff
Votes: 32
A print of the film was discovered in Australia in the 1990s.
54. A Thief Catcher (1914)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy
The Keystone Cops pursue a thief.
Director: Ford Sterling | Stars: Ford Sterling, Keystone Kops, Phyllis Allen, Charles Chaplin
Votes: 646
Discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
55. Won in a Closet (1914)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Mabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding in a closet at the mother's home.
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Mabel Normand, Charles Inslee, Charles Avery, Alice Davenport
Votes: 118
Discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
56. Double Trouble (1915)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Shy, timid banker Florian Amidon is assaulted, robbed, and knocked out while on vacation. When he wakes up he discovers that he's in the booming oil town of Bakerstown, has no memory of how... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Margery Wilson, Gladys Brockwell
Votes: 150
Silent screen legend Douglas Fairbanks is Florian Amidon, a mild-mannered banker struck on the head while strolling home from church. He awakens five years in the future, his memory a blank. To his shock, he has spent the intervening years in the identity of Eugene Brassfield, a conniving businessman and womanizer. Brassfield has just won the mayoral election, so it's the timid Florian who gets sworn into office. The nebbish must also deal with Brassfield's flock of sexy love interests, all of whom want a piece of him...or rather, his alter ego. Without his other personality's brashness, Florian is in way over his head...and hoping for another concussion...
A comic tale of split personality, Double Trouble is Douglas Fairbanks's rarely-seen second major motion picture. He made his screen debut the year before in The Lamb (1915). Upon first arriving in Hollywood, Fairbanks worked under the supervision of D.W. Griffith. But a few months after the release of Double Trouble, Fairbanks would begin a successful association with director John Emerson and writer Anita Loos. The husband-and-wife team emphasized his athleticism in a popular series of romantic comedies that included His Picture in the Papers and The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Griffith was much more interested in Fairbanks's potential as a serious dramatic actor.) This led to lasting immortality as the movies' first big action star, starting with The Mark of Zorro (1920). Long thought lost, Double Trouble offers us a rare glimpse of this early stage of Fairbanks's career.
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57. His Lordship's Dilemma (1915)
Comedy, Short
Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Haddock | Stars: W.C. Fields, Bud Ross, Walter Fields
Votes: 14
Found in a Belgian film archive.
58. Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915)
10 min | Comedy, Short
In pursuit of a pretty miss,Luke gets admitted to a hospital.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Gene Marsh
Votes: 26
Found in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive.
59. Youth (1915)
Drama, Short
Harold Harcourt, a well-to-do young sculptor employs Elena, his wife, as his model, and she lends inspiration to many beautiful pieces of statuary. But a few years later, while striving for... See full summary »
Director: Harry Handworth | Stars: Antonio Moreno, Valda Valkyrien, Donald Hall, Frankie Mann
Film exists in the British Film Institute archive.
60. East Lynne (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Drama
A woman leaves her husband and children for mistaken reasons. After being thought killed in a train crash, she returns in disguise to be the children's governess.
Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Theda Bara, Ben Deeley, Stuart Holmes, Claire Whitney
Votes: 43
One of Bara's six surviving films.
61. Mysteriet natten till den 25:e (1917)
35 min | Short
A private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he is overpowered and tied to a chair with a time bomb.
Director: Georg af Klercker | Stars: Mary Johnson, Carl Barcklind, Artur Rolén, Olof Sandborg
Votes: 23
62. Purity (1916)
70 min | Drama
Thornton Darcy, an idealistic poet, is at work upon an allegorical poem which he calls "Virtue." He devotes the first part of it to picturing the idyllic state of the earth prior to the ... See full summary »
Director: Rae Berger | Stars: Audrey Munson, Nigel De Brulier, Alfred Hollingsworth, William A. Carroll
Votes: 22
The Centre Nation de la Cinematographie film archive has a print.
63. Snow White (I) (1916)
Unrated | 63 min | Fantasy, Romance
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Dorothy Cumming, Creighton Hale, Lionel Braham, Alice Washburn
Votes: 441
It was thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire. A "substantially complete" print, with Dutch inter titles and missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.
64. Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Mystery
When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
Director: Arthur Berthelet | Stars: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding
Votes: 474
A copy was discovered in 2014 in the Cinematheque Francaise archive. This is the only film made by Gillette, a famed stage actor best known for his portrayal of Holmes.
65. Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
300 min | Action, Adventure
Serial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter.
Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Harry Fox, Grace Darling, Allan Murnane, Nigel Barrie
Votes: 77
All but the first of 15 episodes of this series survive in the Library of Congress archive. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
66. Bliss (1917)
12 min | Comedy, Short
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his 'title.'
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, W.L. Adams
Votes: 169
Found in 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
67. Bucking Broadway (1917)
53 min | Western
A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells, Vester Pegg
Votes: 675
Found in 2002 in a French archive.
68. His Wedding Night (1917)
19 min | Short, Comedy
In a drugstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann
Votes: 1,270
69. The Image Maker (1917)
50 min | Drama
In ancient Egypt the young Prince of Tsa, bored by endless feasts, yearned for adventures, and clothed in a Nile boatman's garb, started out. He meets and is captivated by the charms of ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Moore | Stars: Valda Valkyrien, Harris Gordon, Inda Palmer, Morgan Jones
Film survives in a private collection.
70. A Reckless Romeo (1917)
23 min | Comedy, Short
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Corinne Parquet, Agnes Neilson, Alice Lake
Votes: 232
Found in an unmarked canister at the Norwegian Film Institute in 1998.
71. The Rough House (1917)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.
Directors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,577
72. The Cook (1918)
22 min | Comedy, Short
Chaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,915
Found in an unmarked canister at the Norwegian Film Institute in 1998, alongside A Reckless Romeo. A second print, containing more footage was found in 2002, and the two were combined to create a restored version. However, some scenes are still missing. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
73. The Floor Below (1918)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
A cub reporter (Normand) is sent undercover to get a story, but falls for the man she is investigating.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Mabel Normand, Tom Moore, Helen Dahl, Wallace McCutcheon Jr.
Votes: 59
Found "in the estate of a Dutch collector" by the Netherlands Film museum. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
74. Hell Bent (1918)
53 min | Western
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, Neva Gerber, Vester Pegg
Votes: 411
A print exists in the Czechoslovak Film Archive.
75. Back Stage (1919)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Comedy
Working their fingers to the bone to prepare the set for an upcoming performance, the enthusiastic stagehands, Roscoe and Buster, find themselves on stage when the cast quits. However, is will alone enough to earn a big round of applause?
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Charles A. Post
Votes: 1,408
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76. Back to God's Country (1919)
Unrated | 73 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
Director: David Hartford | Stars: Nell Shipman, Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman, Wellington A. Playter
Votes: 974
Print discovered in Europe and restored in the 1990s. Scenario by Nell Shipman and novelist James Oliver Curwood. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
77. Camping Out (1919)
Short, Comedy
Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife. His wife is furious when she discovers Fatty is cheating on her with a neglected wife.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Monty Banks
Votes: 22
Reconstructed from reels found in the Nederlands Filmmuseum and Cineteca Nazionale (Rome) storage vaults in 2002.
78. Different from the Others (1919)
Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh
Votes: 1,489
German copies destroyed by the Nazis in 1933 and thought lost since then. A copy was found in Ukraine in the late 1970s. One of the earliest known sympathetic depictions of homosexuality in film. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
79. The Grim Game (1919)
71 min | Adventure, Drama
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 316
Although fragments of the movie were known to have survived, this was widely considered to be a lost film until it was purchased from a private collector in 2014. It was scheduled to be screened at the TCM Classic Film Festival in March 2015. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
80. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, George Fawcett, Kate Bruce
Votes: 441
It was found in the State Film Archives of the Soviet Union, which donated it to the Museum of Modern Art. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
81. Scarlet Days (1919)
77 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster, Clarine Seymour
Votes: 477
Found in the State Film Archives of the Soviet Union, which donated it to the Museum of Modern Art. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
82. The Valley of the Giants (1919)
50 min | Drama, Romance
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Wallace Reid, Grace Darmond, William Brunton, Charles Ogle
Votes: 45
Found in Gosfilmofond Russian state archives, Moscow. Digital copy given to the Library of Congress in 2010.
83. When Bearcat Went Dry (1919)
57 min | Drama
Bearcat Turner Stacy loves Blossom Fulkerson and promises her to give up drinking. Turner s after is arrested and he finds Blossom in the arms of Jerry Henderson. Kindard Powers attacks ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver L. Sellers | Stars: Vangie Valentine, Walt Whitman, Bernard J. Durning, Winter Hall
Votes: 39
Found in a projectionist's collection.
84. The Wicked Darling (1919)
59 min | Drama, Crime
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 481
A copy was found in Europe in the 1990s, and now resides in the Netherlands Film museum. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
85. The Witness for the Defense (1919)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Stella Derrick is tried for the murder of her vicious husband. She is saved, apparently, by the false testimony of Henry Thresk. But Thresk has motives and malevolent plans of his own.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Elsie Ferguson, Vernon Steele, Warner Oland, Wyndham Standing
Votes: 57
Print discovered in Gosfilmofond. Screened at Univ. of North Dakota. Ferguson's only surviving silent film. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
86. You're Fired (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr., but only if the latter can hold the same job for one month. Billy is hired for... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Wallace Reid, Wanda Hawley, Henry Woodward, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 17
Found in Russian state archives Gosfilmofond, Moscow. Digital copy given to the Library of Congress in 2010.
87. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph
Votes: 273
Recovered and screened by Museum of Modern Art on November 29, 2010 as part of their film exhibition Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares. If you are a Cinephile a Movie Buff try to check it out and let me know if it's worthed.
88. In the Days of Saint Patrick (1920)
80 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A bishop establishes missionary settlements in Ireland.
Director: Norman Whitten | Stars: Vernon Whitten, Gilbert Greene, Ira Allen, Alice Cardinall
Votes: 23
89. The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
TV-G | 80 min | Romance, Western
This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.
Director: Norbert A. Myles | Stars: White Parker, Esther LeBarre, Hunting Horse, Jack Sankeydoty
Votes: 489
Bought and restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2007.
90. Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920)
88 min | Horror
Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen
Votes: 1,130
Complete copy was discovered in the Berlin film archive.
91. Helen of Four Gates (1920)
64 min | Drama
A madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Alma Taylor, James Carew, Gerald Ames, George Dewhurst
Votes: 100
Found in a film vault in Quebec, Canada in 2008. Proud of that one I am from Quebec
92. If I Were King (1920)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
The famed poet and vagabond rogue François Villon is by odd circumstances given the opportunity to rule France for a week. Adventure and intrigue ensue.
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke, Fritz Leiber, Walter Law
Votes: 19
Print is held by the Library of Congress.
93. Unseen Forces (1920)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
As children, Clyde meets Miriam, and seem to fall in love, but when they get older, a misunderstanding prevents their marrying, and he instead takes Winifred, a social climber, resulting in... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Sylvia Breamer, Rosemary Theby, Conrad Nagel, Robert Cain
Votes: 45
Rediscovered at the New Zealand Film Archive in 2010. A video of the preserved film can be viewed at the National Film Preservation Foundation website.
94. Leather Stocking: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
59 min | Western
Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned
Director: Arthur Wellin | Stars: Emil Mamelok, Herta Heden, Bela Lugosi, Gottfried Kraus
Votes: 110
Recovered in the 1990s, exists in private film collection.
95. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 3,631
Lost for decades, a single print of the film, entitled La Negra (The Black Woman), was discovered in Spain in the 1970s. In 1993, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center restored the film as closely as possible to the original.
96. The Blue Fox (1921)
Adventure, Action
The daughter of a white father and an Eskimo mother is taken to be raised in the U.S. after her father is murdered by members of the tribe who were jealous that he had married an Eskimo ... See full summary »
Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Ann Little, J. Morris Foster, Joseph W. Girard, Charles Mason
Votes: 24
Portions of the first 12 chapters of this serial exist in UCLA Film and Television Archive; parts 13–15 are believed lost.
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