Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster A Child's Impulse
A Child's Impulse
17mn - Drama
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc. Sur…
poster The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii
95mn -
79 AD. In the city of Pompeii the young Glaucus loves beautiful Jone, although he's courted by Giulia and secretly loved by his blind slave Nidia. One day Glaucus is wrongly accused of murder by a priest …
poster The Egyptian Mummy
The Egyptian Mummy
17mn - Horror, Comedy
In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.
poster Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
13mn - Western, Drama
Through a kindly act Broncho Billy earns the deep gratitute of Marion Rivers, who presents him with a Bible. Not long afterwards, she comes upon him as he is about to hold up the stage, but at sight of th…
poster Broken Ways
Broken Ways
17mn - Western
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give he…
poster Bread for the Birds
Bread for the Birds
13mn - Drama
Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many films in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the public eye; Here is a rags-to-riches story of a dancer and her older benefactor, a kind-hearted piano tutor.
poster Rigadin in the Balkans
Rigadin in the Balkans
14mn - Comedy
Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to Pathe Freres and talks them into making a movie about him e…
poster Rigadin, Dégustateur en Vins
Rigadin, Dégustateur en Vins
9mn - Comedy
Rigadin becomes a wine taster in two different scenarios, In both of these he spits wine at the people around him and eventually forgets not to swallow. He gets drunk and causes mayhem.
poster Rigadin Napoleon
Rigadin Napoleon
15mn - Comedy
Rigadin's girlfriend is a Bonapartist and wishes Rigadin was more Napoleonic. He dreams that he is Napoleon, inspecting and decorating his troops, before leading them in the Battle of the Pyramids.
poster Masks and Faces
Masks and Faces
92mn - Comedy
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
poster Sunnyside
Sunnyside
41mn - Comedy, Romance
An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.
poster By the Sea
By the Sea
15mn - Comedy
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to t…
poster A Day's Pleasure
A Day's Pleasure
24mn - Comedy
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
poster Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
(3.2/5)
75mn - Drama
Fanchon, a wild and misunderstood girl living in the forest with her grandmother, faces local shunning until a romance with a wealthy merchant's son changes her path from outcast to acceptance.
poster Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
(2.7/5)
10mn - Animation, Comedy
Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcome…
poster The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii
(3.1/5)
88mn - Drama, Action
Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love with her new master, but he only has eyes for Ione. Ione …
poster Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
(2.7/5)
12mn - Romance, Comedy
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke se…
poster True Heart Susie
True Heart Susie
(3.5/5)
82mn - Drama, Romance
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
poster Amazon: Longest River in the World
Amazon: Longest River in the World
66mn - Documentary
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of cai…
poster Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
(3.0/5)
82mn - War, Drama
A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace – pax aeterna. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. When the neighbouring state declares war, the prince’s heart stops be…