Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster King Lear
King Lear
16mn - Drama
Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.
poster Back Stage
Back Stage
26mn - Comedy
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
poster The Hobo
The Hobo
20mn - Comedy
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
poster The House with Closed Shutters
The House with Closed Shutters
16mn - Drama, War
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not …
poster The Mermaid
The Mermaid
11mn - Comedy
John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and ph…
poster The Miser's Heart
The Miser's Heart
16mn - 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 little girl who lives in his building.
poster Little Nemo
Little Nemo
12mn - Animation, Comedy
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Mov…
poster Algie, the Miner
Algie, the Miner
13mn - Comedy, Western
When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.
poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
poster Agrippina
Agrippina
19mn -
In "Agrippina" (1910), Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between Agrippina, the second wife of the Emperor Claudius, and her son Nero.
poster All Aboard
All Aboard
9mn - Comedy
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus…
poster Ambrose's Sour Grapes
Ambrose's Sour Grapes
21mn -
Ambrose loses his girl-friend to Harry Gribbon in the park. When Ambrose's "girl-friend"'s twin sister and husband arrive everybody gets mixed-up between the two twins.
poster Bumping Into Broadway
Bumping Into Broadway
25mn - Comedy
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…
poster An Arcadian Maid
An Arcadian Maid
14mn - Drama
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
poster Are Crooks Dishonest?
Are Crooks Dishonest?
13mn - Comedy
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
poster As a Boy Dreams
As a Boy Dreams
12mn -
A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirates and buried treasure.
poster On the Fire
On the Fire
11mn - Comedy
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
poster One Too Many
One Too Many
15mn - Comedy
When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
poster Robin Hood
Robin Hood
30mn - Romance, Adventure, Drama
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th centur…
poster Salomé
Salomé
12mn - Drama
Based on Oscar Wilde's version of the story, what is noteworthy is the sheer luxury of the production, an attempt to capture the wild and weird Aubrey Beardsley illustrations that transfigure the work. Th…