Films by Date: 1910's

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1910 Hako's Sacrifice, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1910 In Life's Cycle, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1910 Old Glory, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1910 One Night, and Then, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1910 Over Silent Paths: A Story of the American Desert , D.W. Griffith Western about a woman who brings justice to the murderer of her father (Museum of Modern Art).

1910 Ranger’s Bride, The, one-reel Western starring Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson (George Eastman House).

1910 Red Eagle's Love Affair, assimilation drama about a Native American who falls in love with a white woman (George Eastman House).

1911 Colleen Bawn, The, the surviving reel of an early Sidney Olcott three-reeler, shot on location in Ireland (George Eastman House).

1911 Fighting Blood, D.W. Griffith’s one-reeler about a military family beseiged by Indians (George Eastman House).

1911 Sorrowful Shore, The, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1911 Squaw's Love, The, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1911 Thief and the Girl, The, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1911 Two Paths, The, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1911 Was He a Coward?, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1911 Western Girl, A, Western directed by Gaston Mèliés in the United States (George Eastman House).

1912 Ambassador's Daughter, The, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Charles J. Brabin (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 An Old Fashioned Elopement, Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Boss of the Katy Mine , Essanay Western directed by G. M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson and shot in Niles, California (Library of Congress).

1912 Children Who Labor, dramatized expose made by the Edison Company for the National Child Labor Committee (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Christmas Accident, A, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Harold M. Shaw (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Crime of Carelessness, The, Edison short commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers to rebut public criticism after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Greatest Thing in the World—Love, The, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1912 Lady Clare, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Ashley Miller (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Limited Divorce, A, Biograph film, director unknown (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 My Baby, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 One is Business; the Other Crime, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Proposal Under Difficulties, A, Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Prospector, The, one-reel Essanay Western (Library of Congress).

1912 Public and Private Care of Infants, The, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Charles M. Seay (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Siren of Impulse, A, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Some of Our Bravest and Finest, fire fighters parade in Bridgeport, Connecticut, shot by the local photographer Lewis Corbit (Bridgeport Public Library).

1912 Thirty Days at Hard Labor, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Oscar Apfel (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mun, A, Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 Tim, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Charles J. Brabin (Museum of Modern Art).

1912 War on the Plains, the first Western filmed at Thomas Ince's 101 Ranch and featuring a cast of Lakota/Sioux (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1913 Almost a Wild Man, Biograph film directed by Dell Henderson (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 At Bear Track Gulch, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Harold M. Shaw (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Beasts of the Jungle , jungle adventure by Alice Guy-Blaché (George Eastman House).

1913 Bill's Sweetheart, Edison Company one-reeler (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Bread on the Waters, Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Bunny's Birthday Surprise, starring comedy team John Bunny and Flora Finch, in a spoof about a surprise party that goes awry (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1913 Butler's Secret, The, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1913 Buttercups, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1913 Conscience of Hassan Bey, The, Biograph film directed by W. Christy Cabanne (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Girl Ranchers, The, Western comedy produced by the Nestor Film Company (George Eastman House).

1913 House of Discord, The, Biograph film directed by James Kirkwood (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 How They Outwitted Father, Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 In a Japanese Tea Garden, Edison Company one-reeler directed by J. Searle Dawley (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 John Manly's Awakening, Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Left-Handed Man, The, Biograph film, director unknown (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Man He Might Have Been, The, Edison Company one-reeler (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Miss Fairweather Out West , comedy with Dorothy “Dot” Farley (Library of Congress).

1913 Perfidy of Mary, The, Biograph film directed by D.W. Griffith (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Portrait, The, Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Scarlet Letter, The, one-reel fragment thought to be the only surviving material from an American feature film using the early Kinemacolor process (George Eastman House).

1913 Serenade by Proxy, A, Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Struggle, The, early Western produced by Thomas Ince, featuring a stagecoach chase filmed by a moving camera (George Eastman House).

1913 Those Little Flowers, Biograph film directed by Dell Henderson (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 Two Men of the Desert , recently discovered D.W. Griffith Western featuring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall (Library of Congress).

1913 Unsullied Shield, The, Edison Company one-reeler (Museum of Modern Art).

1913 When Lincoln Paid, recently discovered “lost” Civil War drama directed by Francis Ford (Keene State College).

1914 Ageless Sex, The, short film from the Vitagraph Company (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1914 Bargain, The, W.S. Hart's first feature, filmed on location at Grand Canyon and preserved on 35mm from paper prints deposited for copyright protection (Library of Congress).

1914 Calvary Baptist Church, celebration filmed outside Providence, Rhode Island’s Calvary Baptist Church on June 14, 1914 (Rhode Island Historical Society).

1914 Genius, The, Biograph film directed by Dell Henderson (Museum of Modern Art).

1914 In the Land of the Headhunters, reconstruction of Edwin S. Curtis’s legendary film, featuring a native cast and location shooting in British Columbia (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1914 Last of the Line , Western in which William Eagleshirt, as leader of his tribe, must atone for his son, played by Sessue Hayakawa, who returns from school corrupted by the white man (Museum of Modern Art).

1914 Lena Rivers, a Southern aristocrat struggles to keep secret his marriage to a Northern woman, in one of the few of pre-World War I American features to survive in complete form (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1914 Man's Enemy, Biograph film, director unknown (Museum of Modern Art).

1914 One Touch of Nature, Edison Company one-reeler directed by Ashley Miller (Museum of Modern Art).

1914 Private Bunny, Vitagraph short with comedian John Bunny (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1914 Strongheart, Biograph film directed by James Kirkwood (Museum of Modern Art).

1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance, first feature-length comedy with Charlie Chaplin (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1914 Vigil of Motana, Edward S. Curtis’s legendary feature shot among the Kwakiutls of Vancouver Island (Field Museum).

1914 Wife, The, Biograph film directed by David Miles (Museum of Modern Art).

1915 Brown University Graduation, footage of the ceremony and the post-graduation celebrations of students and alumni (Rhode Island Historical Society).

1915 Coward, The, Thomas Ince's Civil War study starring Frank Keenan as the father who assumes his cowardly son's place in the ranks (Museum of Modern Art).

1915 Diamonds, crime drama made by the Eastern Film Company of Providence, Rhode Island (Rhode Island Historical Society).

1915 Fool There Was, A, the steamy tale of a married businessman who loses everything in pursuit of Theda Bara, a heartless seductress called the "Vampire" (Museum of Modern Art).

1915 Forbes Collection, early home movies of the Maine coast and Naushon Island, captured on 28mm film (Northeast Historic Film).

1915 Pitch of Chance, The, two-reel Western directed by and starring Frank Borzage (Library of Congress).

1915 Professor’s Painless Cure, The, Vitagraph comedy directed by and starring Sidney Drew (George Eastman House).

1915 Versus Sledge Hammer, one-reel comedy from the Essanay studio (Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum).

1915 Who Pays?, Ruth Roland series that was among the first to explore social issues (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1915? U.S. Navy Documentary, fragment from an early documentary promoting American naval preparedness (Library of Congress).

1916 American Aristocracy, adventure comedy, written by Anita Loos, pitting Douglas Fairbanks against an international arms smuggler (George Eastman House).

1916 Chalk Line, The, one-reeler by the Vim Film Company, starring Rosemary Theby (George Eastman House).

1916 Girl from Frisco, The. Episode 11—The Yellow Hand , from the Kalem adventure series (Library of Congress).

1916 Golden Chance, The, Cecil B. DeMille's morality tale about an alcoholic husband who plots blackmail when his beautiful wife unwittingly becomes a millionaire's object of affection (George Eastman House).

1916 Historic Provincetown, travelogue (Northeast Historic Film).

1916 Love Girl, The, melodrama about the orphaned Ambrosia who must move in with her aunt and rescue her kidnapped cousin from a swami hypnotist (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1916 Manhattan Madness, satire directed by Allen Dwan in which Douglas Fairbanks, returning to New York from the West, shows his "sissified" friends how things are done on the range (George Eastman House).

1916 San Diego Expositive Weekly News, locally produced newsreel of the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park (San Diego Historical Society).

1916 Social Secretary, The, story of sexual harassment and reformation by the husband-and-wife team of director John Emerson and scenarist Anita Loos. This film features an early appearance by Erich von Stroheim, also credited as Assistant Director (George Eastman House).

1916 Upheaval, The, feature starring Lionel Barrymore as an honest politician fighting political corruption (George Eastman House).

1916 Vermont Romance, A, Vermont Progressive Party's moral tale about an orphaned country girl forced to take factory work in town (Northeast Historic Film).

1917 Call of Her People, The, melodrama starring Ethel Barrymore (George Eastman House).

1917 Camera Cure, The, Keystone comedy starring Maude Wayne and Malcolm St. Clair (George Eastman House).

1917 Daughter of the Poor, A, comedic romance starring Bessie Love as a downtrodden woman who learns to love the rich (George Eastman House).

1917 Peggy Leads the Way, feature starring Mary Miles Minter as the plucky Peggy, who returns home from finishing school to rescue her father's ailing store (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1917 Wild and Woolly, the satire, scripted by Anita Loos as the complement to Manhattan Madness, in which an Easterner, played by Douglas Fairbanks, goes West to face train robbers and Indians (Museum of Modern Art).

1918 Blue Bird, The, Maurice Tourneur's atmospheric Christmas fantasy, based on the Maeterlinck play, about two poor children in search of the Blue Bird of Happiness (George Eastman House).

1918 Devil's Wheel, The, melodrama set in the dangerous world of Parisian gambling (Museum of Modern Art).

1918 Humdrum Brown, surviving reels of Rex Ingram's comedy-drama depicting the adventures of the title character who breaks free from his "humdrum" life (George Eastman House).

1918 Increasing Farm Efficiency, early promotional film on the benefits of rural electric power, produced by the owner of the Delco generator franchise in Silver Creek, Nebraska (Nebraska State Historical Society).

1918 Opportunity, comedy about a young woman who disguises herself in men's clothing in order to attend a prizefight without her father's permission (George Eastman House).

1918 Tip, The, silent-era short starring comedian Harold Lloyd (George Eastman House).

1919 Blind Husbands, Erich von Stroheim's directorial debut about a neglected wife, on holiday in the Alps, who resists the advances of an Austrian cavalry officer (Museum of Modern Art).

1919 Can You Beat It?, two-reel comedy released by Jester Comedies featuring Dorothy Earle and Flo Bailey (George Eastman House).

1919 End of the Road, The, one of the first anti-VD films aimed at American women (George Eastman House).

1919 Hushed Hour, The, surviving reels of this moral tale of four adult children, all disappointments, who respect their father's dying wish to observe a "hushed hour" in introspection (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1919 Man in the Moonlight, Royal Mounted Police drama about the young sergeant who must postpone his wedding to apprehend his bride's brother (George Eastman House).

1919 Oakland Newsreels , local news stories from the California city (Library of Congress).

1919 Roaring Road, The, romantic comedy about a daredevil car racer who must beat the train to win his sweetheart (UCLA Film & Television Archive).

1919 Treat ’Em Rough, silent vehicle for cowboy Tom Mix (George Eastman House).

1919 Trip through Japan with the YWCA, A, travelogue by Benjamin Brodsky spotlighting the work of Japanese women (George Eastman House).

1919 Virtuous Model, The, drama—produced, written and directed by Albert Capellani—about a French sculptor who falls in love with his model (George Eastman House).

1919-26 Wohelo Camp, documentation of the all-girl camp that was an inspiration for the Camp Fire Girls (Northeast Historic Film).

1919–29 Early Silent Newsreels, stories from the Hearst Metrotone News collection (UCLA Film & Television Archive).