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1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
Not Rated | 13 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Short
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Z. Leonard
Votes: 1,647
2. Auction of Souls (1919)
80 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Aurora Mardiganian, Irving Cummings, Anna Q. Nilsson, Henry Morgenthau
Votes: 1,244
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)
Not Rated | 14 min | Action, Short, Drama
A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes ... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Boggs, Thomas Persons | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Francis Boggs
Votes: 57
4. The Spoilers (1914)
110 min | Drama, Western
The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton
Votes: 107
5. Little Orphant Annie (1918)
57 min | Drama
Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Harry Lonsdale, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 82
6. The Jungle Goddess (1922)
310 min | Adventure
A young girl is kidnapped and thrown in the empty basket of a hot-air balloon. The balloon is accidentally cut loose and drifts to the middle of darkest Africa. The young girl is captured ... See full summary »
Director: James Conway | Stars: Elinor Field, Truman Van Dyke, Marie Pavis, L.M. Wells
Votes: 20
7. The Vampire (1910)
Short, Drama
A picture dramatization from Sir Ed Burne-Jones' famous painting, with suggestions from that world famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, each conceded a peer in the literary and world of art. ... See full summary »
Stars: Charles Clary, Margarita Fischer
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908)
16 min | Short, Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte
Votes: 68
9. The Second Wife (1914)
Short, Drama
The common, but perplexing problem is, what should be the plan for a woman, who, marrying a widower, finds that her husband's love for his first wife is eclipsing his love for her? This is ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Eagle | Stars: Harold Vosburgh, Alma Russell, Baby Ruth Hazlette
10. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
Director: William Nicholas Selig | Stars: Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle
Votes: 586
11. Miracles of the Jungle (1921)
Action
The adventures of two U.S. Secret Service men sent to Africa to bring back a man wanted for murder.
Directors: James Conway, E.A. Martin | Stars: Ben Hagerty, Wilbur Higby, Al Ferguson, Frederick Peters
12. In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
48 min | Western
Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
Directors: Colin Campbell, Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, Wheeler Oakman, Red Wing
Votes: 38
13. The Drag-Net (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
Director: Vin Moore | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Marian Nixon, Betty Compson, Jack Adair
Votes: 64
14. The Coming of Columbus (1912)
Short, Adventure, Biography
As is known, Columbus visited nearly every Court in Europe for assistance to carry out his great project. The Selig films introduce him to us in Portugal, where he sought the favor of John ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Marshall Stedman, Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, George McDermott
15. The House of a Thousand Candles (1915)
Drama, Mystery
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Harry Mestayer, Grace Darmond, John Charles, George Backus
16. A Robust Patient (1911)
Short, Comedy
Jones is sick and a friend tells him he should go to a sanitarium and recommends Dr. Crow's Retreat. Accordingly Jones bids his wife good-bye and is off for his health, arrives and is ... See full summary »
Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Nick Cogley
17. Lost in the Jungle (1911)
16 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, William V. Mong, Frank Weed, Charles Clary
Votes: 26
18. Thou Shalt Not Covet (I) (1916)
Drama
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually falls in love with his neighbor's wife.... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Kathlyn Williams, Guy Oliver, Eugenie Besserer
19. The Garden of Allah (1916)
100 min | Drama
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Helen Ware, Tom Santschi, Will Machin, Matt Snyder
20. The Law and the Outlaw (1913)
39 min | Short, Western
Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch... See full summary »
Director: William Duncan | Stars: Tom Mix, Lester Cuneo, Myrtle Stedman, Florence Dye
Votes: 39
21. The Heart of a Race Tout (1909)
Short, Drama
Tom Martin had for some time been out of employment, and, although he had repeatedly applied for his old position as telegraph operator, the fact that he had taken part in a recent labor ... See full synopsis »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Charles Dean, James L. McGee, Tom Santschi, Henry Todd
22. Kazan (1921)
Passed | Drama
Kazan, a dog who reverts to the life of the wild when his master is killed, becomes docile when he develops a loyalty to a girl in distress. Pierre Radisson is a trapper; his older son is a... See full summary »
Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Kazan the Wonder Dog, Jane Novak, Ben Deeley, William Ryno
23. The Lady Barbers (1910)
Short, Comedy
Every hamlet can boast of one or more public hostelry and most of them find time to name one of them Commercial, such is true of Caseyville. The evening train had just arrived, the hotel ... See full summary »
24. The Land of Oz (1910)
Short, Fantasy
Lost adaption of the 1904 book of "The Marvelous Land of Oz" in which Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Wizard encounter the rebellion army of General Jinger and his Leith soldiers.
Director: Otis Turner | Star: Marcia Moore
Votes: 37
25. The Millionaire Baby (1915)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Who stole "The Millionaire Baby?" Did the plotting Doctor Pool finally accomplish his bold determination? Did Valerie Carew, former Burlesque Queen conquered by Mother-Love seize an ... See full summary »
Directors: Lawrence Marston, Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Frederick Hand, Mrs. A.C. Marston, Grace Darmond, Harry Mestayer
Votes: 21
26. Where There's a Will, There's a Way (1911)
Comedy, Short
Two staid judges, Hay and Holt, are close friends. They have but one child each, an attractive daughter. These old fellows are very dignified and old-fashioned in their ideas, and they ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Nick Cogley, George Hernandez, Herbert Rawlinson, Roy Watson
Votes: 11
27. The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton (1913)
Drama, Sport
A drama of a sailboat race and the ship-builder who builds the yacht that wins the Lipton Cup.
Director: Lem B. Parker | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Kathlyn Williams, Henry Otto, Robert Greene
28. Monte Cristo (1912)
Short, Adventure
Part One. The first reel opens with the departure of the ship Pharaon from Marseilles, with Dantes and Danglars, the man who later incomes his deadly rival, as supercargo. During the voyage... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi, Herbert Rawlinson, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 24
30. Convicts at Large (1938)
Not Rated | 57 min | Drama
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
Directors: Scott R. Beal, David Friedman | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Paula Stone, William Royle, John Kelly
Votes: 73
31. Soldiers at Play (1898)
Documentary, Short
"Showing them in a game called 'cock fight,' in which they hop around on one foot with their arms folded. The whole affair is very laughable and sure to provoke a great outburst of mirth."
Director: William Nicholas Selig
32. The Man from Texas (1915)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short, Western
A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her and she is in trouble. When he gets there, he finds her dead. He sets out to track down the husband.
Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Goldie Colwell, Louella Maxam, Ed Brady
Votes: 97
33. The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)
300 min | Adventure
The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.
Director: Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Horace B. Carpenter, Lafe McKee
Votes: 46
34. Gratitude (1910)
Short, Drama
In the shadow of the Nevada Falls, we see John Morgan and his wife wending their way back to civilization with their trusty pack mule as their only companion. Disappointed in their search ... See full summary »
35. The Circular Staircase (1915)
Passed | Mystery
Aunt Ray Innes leases Sunnyside House, the country home of Paul Armstrong, and invites her nephew and niece, Halsey and Gertrude Innes. En route, the young people stop at the Greenwood Club... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Eugenie Besserer, Guy Oliver, Stella Razeto, Edith Johnson
Votes: 15
36. Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914)
70 min | Drama
A wealthy heiress marries "a spendthrift and a man of loose morals." After the honeymoon a creditor begins demanding payment, the husband insists that his wife pays the bills because the ... See full summary »
Director: Giles Warren | Stars: Olive Wyndham, Clara Smith, John Charles, Katherine Henry
37. In the Sultan's Power (1909)
Adventure, Short
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte, Tom Santschi, Stella Adams
38. The Golden Thought (1916)
Short, Western
Tom Daton, deputy marshal, is ordered to Chico County to keep an eye upon a number of desperate characters reported to have been terrorizing that vicinity. Bess Jackson, a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Victoria Forde, Barney Furey, Lillian Clark
39. John Colter's Escape (1912)
Short, Drama
John Colter, a backwoodsman of the northwestern coast, earned a reputation for his speed as a runner and his resourcefulness in face of danger. Once when trapping he was captured by a ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Bessie Eyton, Harry Ennis, Lillian Hayward
40. The 'Diamond S' Ranch (1912)
Short, Thriller
The "Diamond S" ranch abounds in thrilling scenes of dare-devil cowboy life. One feature of the great subject is a number of scenes showing the Champion Woman Bulldogger and Steer Thrower ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Thayer | Stars: Tom Mix, Frank Maish, Olive Mix
41. A Child of the Prairie (1915)
63 min | Western
In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?
Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Louella Maxam, Norma Maxam, Ed Brady
Votes: 23
42. The Life Timer (1913)
Short, Western
Steve and Tom are rivals for the hand of Mona. She prefers Steve; they become engaged and are later married. On the night of the wedding Tom in a jealous rage, is about to kill Steve, but ... See full summary »
Director: William Duncan | Stars: William Duncan, Myrtle Stedman, Lester Cuneo, Florence Dye
43. The Roman (1910)
Drama, Short
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte, Robert Z. Leonard, Tom Santschi
44. The Country That God Forgot (1916)
Drama
After years of mining, Steve Brant finally strikes it rich and plans to use his new fortune to give his wife Helen all of the things that she has had to do without. Helen, however, is ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Tom Santschi, George Fawcett, Mary Charleson, Will Machin
45. Belle Boyd, a Confederate Spy (1913)
11 min | Short, Drama
Belle Boyd was one of the most daring and dashing figures of the South in the great Civil War. She was captured and imprisoned a number of times, and was personally commended by General ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Eagle | Stars: Winifred Greenwood, Charles Clary, Harry Lonsdale
46. The Real Thing in Cowboys (1914)
Short, Comedy, Western
Elsie's idea of a real man was a dummy dressed like a cowboy, reckless and wild and woolly. Wallace Carey, a gallant city businessman, rich, attractive, and well dressed, was in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Goldie Colwell, Anna Townsend, Old Blue
47. Sally in Our Alley (II) (1913)
10 min | Short, Drama
"Sally in Our Alley" is the simple love story of Billy, an apprentice, and Sally, the darling of his heart, who "lives in our alley" in a quaint old-fashioned English village. "Her father, ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Wheeler Oakman, Bessie Eyton, Tom Santschi, William Hutchison
48. The Lost City (1920)
300 min | Action, Adventure
Princess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen) comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander ... See full summary »
Director: E.A. Martin | Stars: Juanita Hansen, George Chesebro, Frank Clark, Hector Dion
Votes: 35
49. Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary (1910)
Short, Drama
Mazeppa, the infant son of a Tartar chief, was captured by the Poles and grew into manhood in the Polish land, never knowing his true parentage. Through his bravery and gallantry, he became... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi
50. On the Little Big Horn or Custer's Last Stand (1909)
Short, Action, Drama
The order of disarmament, issued in the Winter of 1S74, and the arrest of "Rain in the Face" by young Tom Custer, is shown in our first three scenes. Then, "two years later," we witness the... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte, Frank Walsh