1909

A Corner in Wheat

6.151/108

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines an...

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A Corner in Wheat

1911

His Trust Fulfilled

3.7/14

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 meag...

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His Trust Fulfilled

1910

The Unchanging Sea

6.4/38

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. Th...

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The Unchanging Sea

1910

A Child of the Ghetto

4.5/3

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals s...

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A Child of the Ghetto

1909

A Drunkard's Reformation

5.5/10

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he'...

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A Drunkard's Reformation

1908

After Many Years

2.5/2

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

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After Many Years

1908

An Awful Moment

2.8/4

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefu...

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An Awful Moment

1908

Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters

2/1

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but i...

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Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters

1908

Romance of a Jewess

4.1/5

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

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Romance of a Jewess

1909

The Country Doctor

6.2/39

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pl...

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The Country Doctor

1909

The Way of Man

4/2

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

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The Way of Man

1908

The Christmas Burglars

2/2

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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The Christmas Burglars

1909

One Touch of Nature

3/1

"A pathetic story of mother's grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother's grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beaut...

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One Touch of Nature

1911

The Making of a Man

6.3/3

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father f...

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The Making of a Man

1910

The Usurer

5/11

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

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The Usurer

1910

In the Border States

5.5/15

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, whe...

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In the Border States

1909

The Seventh Day

3/1

A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her ch...

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The Seventh Day

1909

In the Watches of the Night

2/1

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested. O...

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In the Watches of the Night

1909

The Heart of an Outlaw

2/1

A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted by...

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The Heart of an Outlaw

1913

Fate

5.7/3

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers of peace and kindness. But granddad dwelt in a hous...

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Fate

1909

A Trap for Santa Claus

5.5/22

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

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A Trap for Santa Claus

1908

The Zulu's Heart

4.3/6

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

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The Zulu's Heart

1909

The Lonely Villa

6/66

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interio...

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The Lonely Villa

1910

A Child's Stratagem

3.5/1

Mrs. Walton wilfully and mistakenly presumes that her husband is unfaithful, and demands a divorce. Devastated by the impending breakup of her home, t...

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A Child's Stratagem

1910

Gold Is Not All

0/0

Mabel, a young woman living in a large mansion, is courted by Tom Darrell, a neighbour of the same class. Meanwhile, Ruth, Mabel’s laundress, is court...

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Gold Is Not All

1910

A Salutary Lesson

0/0

During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister,...

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A Salutary Lesson

1910

His Sister-In-Law

0/0

Eva and Blanche are inseparable sisters living with a maiden aunt. But Eva marries a suitor named John, to Blanche’s great dismay, and starts married...

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His Sister-In-Law

1910

The Broken Doll

4/1

An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local white...

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The Broken Doll

1912

The Sunbeam

6.3/14

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

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The Sunbeam

1910

The House with Closed Shutters

5.3/27

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...

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The House with Closed Shutters

1909

The Children's Friend

3/1

Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies home...

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The Children's Friend

1909

Wanted, a Child

3.5/1

A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when forc...

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Wanted, a Child

1911

Conscience

0/0

As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's out...

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Conscience

1908

The Stolen Jewels

4/1

It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...

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The Stolen Jewels

1909

Jealousy and the Man

2.5/1

House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise.

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Jealousy and the Man

1909

The Roue’s Heart

4.5/1

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of d...

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The Roue’s Heart

1908

The Adventures of Dollie

5.2/30

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

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The Adventures of Dollie

1910

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

0/0

In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the boy, now a young man, gives the girl a ring and they n...

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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

1909

What's Your Hurry?

5.2/4

Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry see...

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What's Your Hurry?

1909

What Drink Did

4.5/12

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...

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What Drink Did

1909

The Faded Lilies

2.2/2

A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

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The Faded Lilies

1909

The Slave

4.2/2

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food...

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The Slave

1909

His Lost Love

2/1

Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary a...

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His Lost Love

1910

On the Reef

0/0

Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl chil...

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On the Reef

1910

The Rocky Road

4/1

The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woma...

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The Rocky Road

1910

Rose o' Salem Town

5.2/4

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, decl...

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Rose o' Salem Town

1909

Through the Breakers

4.2/2

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of h...

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Through the Breakers

1911

His Trust

4.1/23

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 ki...

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His Trust

1911

His Daughter

4/1

William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical p...

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His Daughter

1909

They Would Elope

5.1/4

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when th...

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They Would Elope

1909

I Did It

2.5/2

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feel...

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I Did It

1912

Two Little Rangers

6/5

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She rece...

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Two Little Rangers

1909

The Voice of the Violin

4.7/7

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich ca...

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The Voice of the Violin

1909

The Girls and Daddy

3/2

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

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The Girls and Daddy

1910

As It Is in Life

5.2/10

A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.

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As It Is in Life

1910

The Newlyweds

5/1

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other id...

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The Newlyweds

1910

A Child's Impulse

6.2/4

Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the sev...

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A Child's Impulse

1912

Votes for Women

8/1

Named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film”, this melodrama follows suffragist May Fillmore in her fight to sway Senator...

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Votes for Women

1910

The Troublesome Baby

10/1

Martin is hurriedly called to High Beach to close a big deal with the president of a construction company stopping there.

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The Troublesome Baby

1911

Paradise Lost

0/0

The Parson and his friend Pete, a worthless inebriate of the village, in a drunken sleep by the roadside. His cure has been tried often, but in vain....

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Paradise Lost

1911

Fighting Blood

6.3/3

After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hill...

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Fighting Blood

1911

Bobby the Coward

0/0

Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they insult him. But when the gang breaks into his apartment,...

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Bobby the Coward

1911

The Blind Princess and the Poet

0/0

A blind princess is informed that her sight can be restored by the first kiss of unselfish love she receives. She remains blind until a humble poet st...

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The Blind Princess and the Poet