Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster Only in the Way
Only in the Way
12mn - 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.
poster The Dream
The Dream
10mn - Drama
A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsi…
poster Fate's Turning
Fate's Turning
17mn -
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the…
poster His Trust Fulfilled
His Trust Fulfilled
11mn - History, Drama, War
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the mon…
poster His Trust
His Trust
14mn - History, 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 battle, George continues in his caring duties,…
poster Barcelona and Its Park
Barcelona and Its Park
3mn - Documentary
Short movie on Barcelona's "Citadel Park" produced by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé Frères. Directed and filmed by Segundo de Chomón.
poster The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
38mn - Drama
Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy street dancer, arouses the desire of men, especially of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame. The latter asks Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell-ringer of the cathed…
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 If One Could See Into the Future
If One Could See Into the Future
9mn - Fantasy, Drama
A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.
poster Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
2mn - Documentary
An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.
poster A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
(3/5)
11mn - Fantasy, Drama
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that await…
poster The Greater Call
The Greater Call
(2.9/5)
10mn -
Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penn…
poster Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
(2.7/5)
14mn - Comedy
Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....
poster The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades
(2.7/5)
15mn - Horror, Drama
Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …
poster King Lear
King Lear
16mn - Drama
Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.
poster His Mother's Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving
(3.1/5)
15mn - Drama, Family
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fort…
poster The Song of the Wildwood Flute
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
17mn - Drama
Gray Cloud (Dark Cloud) successfully woos Dove Eyes (Mary Pickford). But after he brings his bride home to his tent, he is shadowed by a jealous rival (Dell Henderson) who leaves him for dead when he fall…
poster The Nativity
The Nativity
14mn - Drama
A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.
poster Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt
33mn -
Frederick Ward is accused of cattle theft and sent to Cockatoo island for seven years. After he escapes he finds that his fiancée has died of grief. For revenge he undertakes a life of crime.
poster Princess Tarakanova
Princess Tarakanova
(2.9/5)
19mn - Drama, History
Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.