Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1915 | Anna Karenina | J. Gordon Edwards | Betty Nansen, Edward José | The first American adaptation of the novel | [1] |
Bella Donna | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [2] |
The Black Box | Otis Turner | Herbert Rawlinson | A 15-chapter serial | [3] |
By the Shortest of Heads | Bert Haldane | George Formby | Last known copy destroyed in 1940 | [4] |
Carmen | Raoul Walsh | Theda Bara, Einar Linden | | [5] |
Destruction | Will S. Davis | Theda Bara | | [6] |
The Devil's Daughter | Frank Powell | Theda Bara | Filmed on location in St. Augustine, Florida, this production marked Bara's fourth screen portrayal as a "vamp". | [7] [8] |
The Diamond from the Sky | Jacques Jaccard, William Desmond Taylor | Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, William Russell | A 30-chapter adventure serial | [9] |
Esmeralda | James Kirkwood | Mary Pickford | | [10] |
The Eternal City | Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | One of the first American productions filmed in Rome | [11] |
The Galley Slave | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Stuart Holmes | | [12] |
A Girl of Yesterday | Allan Dwan | Mary Pickford, Frances Marion, Glenn L. Martin | | [13] [14] |
The Goose Girl | Frederick A. Thomson | Marguerite Clark | | [15] |
Graft | George Lessey, Richard Stanton | Harry Carey | A serial of 20 chapters | [16] |
His Lordship's Dilemma | | W. C. Fields | Possibly found in a Belgian film archive | [17] |
Inspiration | George Foster Platt | Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran | | [18] |
Jim the Penman | Edwin S. Porter | John B. Mason, Harold Lockwood | | [19] |
The Kreutzer Sonata | Herbert Brenon | Nance O'Neil, Theda Bara, William H. Shay | | [20] |
The Last Night of the Barbary Coast | Hal Mohr, Sol Lesser | | Early example of an exploitation film, purportedly showing the last night of the Barbary Coast red-light district of San Francisco | [21] |
Life Without Soul | Joseph W. Smiley | Percy Standing | The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein | [22] |
Neal of the Navy | William Bertram, W. M. Harvey | William Courtleigh, Jr. Lillian Lorraine | A 14-chapter serial | [23] |
The New Exploits of Elaine | Louis J. Gasnier, Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Pearl White, Creighton Hale | A 10-chapter serial | [24] |
The Pine's Revenge | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney Cleo Madison | | [25] |
The Pretty Sister of Jose | Allan Dwan | Marguerite Clark, Jack Pickford, Rupert Julian | Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan | [26] |
Quits | Joseph de Grasse | Arthur Shirley, Lon Chaney | A one-reel short | [27] |
The Romance of Elaine | George B. Seitz | Pearl White | A 12-chapter serial | [28] |
Rupert of Hentzau | George Loane Tucker | Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Gerald Ames | | [29] |
Sin | Herbert Brenon | Theda Bara, William E. Shay | | [30] |
Sold | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [31] |
The Soul of Broadway | Herbert Brenon | Valeska Suratt | The debut film for Suratt, who played vamp roles in the vein of Theda Bara. All 11 of Suratt's films were destroyed in the 1937 Fox storage fire. | [32] |
The Star of the Sea | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush | | [33] |
Steady Company | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush | A one-reel short | [34] |
Temptation | Cecil B. DeMille | Geraldine Farrar, Theodore Roberts, Pedro de Cordoba | | [35] |
The Threads of Fate | Joe De Grasse | Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan, Lon Chaney | | [36] |
The Two Orphans | Herbert Brenon | Theda Bara | Later remade by D. W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm , starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish | [37] |
Under the Crescent | Burton L. King | Ola Humphrey | A six-chapter serial | [38] |
The Valley of Lost Hope | Romaine Fielding | Romaine Fielding, Mildred Gregory, Peter Lang | Western involving a crashing locomotive | |
The Wild Goose Chase | Cecil B. DeMille | Ina Claire | | [40] |
Zaza | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [41] |
1916 | Acquitted | Paul Powell | Wilfred Lucas, Mary Alden, Bessie Love | | [42] |
The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring | Francis Ford, Jacques Jaccard | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | A 15-chapter serial | [43] |
The Apostle of Vengeance | William S. Hart | William S. Hart | An early Western. | [44] |
Audrey | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [45] |
The Black Butterfly | Burton L. King | Olga Petrova, Mahlon Hamilton, Morgan Jones | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire | |
Casey of the Coast Guard | William Nigh | George O'Hara, Helen Ferguson | A ten-part serial | [46] |
A Daughter of the Gods | Herbert Brenon | Annette Kellerman | A few feet were held in the Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost. A still survives of Kellerman's nude scene, the first by a major actress. | [47] |
The Dream Girl | Cecil B. DeMille | Mae Murray, Theodore Roberts | One of the top-grossing films of 1916 | [48] |
The Eternal Sapho | Bertram Bracken | Theda Bara | | [49] |
The Fall of a Nation | Thomas Dixon, Jr. | Lorraine Huling, Percy Standing | The first sequel (of The Birth of a Nation ) | [50] [51] |
The Flying Torpedo | John B. O'Brien, Christy Cabanne | John Emerson, Bessie Love | | [52] |
Gloria's Romance | Walter Edwin, Colin Campbell | Billie Burke, Henry Kolker, David Powell | | [53] |
Gold and the Woman | James Vincent | Theda Bara, Alma Hanlon | | [54] |
The Great Problem | Rex Ingram | Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams | | [55] |
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's | Edward Dillon | Bessie Love | | [56] |
Hell-to-Pay Austin | Paul Powell | Wilfred Lucas, Bessie Love, Eugene Pallette, Mary Alden | | [57] |
Her Double Life | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Franklyn Hanna | | [58] |
Keechaka Vadham | R. Nataraja Mudaliar | Jeevarathnam, R. Nataraja Mudaliar, Raja Mudaliar | First silent film produced in South India | [59] |
Lass of the Lumberlands | Paul Hurst, J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, Thomas G. Lingham | A 15-part serial | [60] |
Liberty | Jacques Jaccard, Henry MacRae | Marie Walcamp, Jack Holt | A 20-chapter Western serial | [61] |
McTeague | Barry O'Neal | Holbrook Blinn, Fania Marinoff | | [62] |
Milestones | Thomas Bentley | Isobel Elsom | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list | [63] |
Das Phantom der Oper | Ernst Matray | Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen | | [64] |
The Pioneers | Franklyn Barrett | Winter Hall | An Australian production | [65] |
The Real Thing at Last | L. C. MacBean, J. M. Barrie | Edmund Gwenn, Marie Lohr, Ernest Thesiger, Frederick Kerr, Pauline Chase | A parody of Macbeth, written by Peter Pan playwright J. M. Barrie | [66] [67] |
The Realization of a Negro's Ambition | Harry A. Gant | Bessie Baker, Lottie Boles, Clarence Brooks | This two-reel short was Lincoln Motion Picture Company's first production. | [68] |
Romeo and Juliet | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard | | [69] |
The Scarlet Runner | William P. S. Earle, Wally Van | Earle Williams, Marguerite Blake | A 12-chapter serial | [70] |
Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky | Edward Sloman | William Russell, Rhea Mitchell | A four-chapter serial; the sequel to the 30-chapter serial The Diamond from the Sky | [71] |
The Serpent | Raoul Walsh | Theda Bara | One of Theda Bara's many lost films | [72] |
She | Will Barker, Horace Lisle Lucoque | Alice Delysia, Henry Victor, Sydney Bland | | [73] |
A Sister of Six | Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Bessie Love | | [74] |
Stranded | Lloyd Ingraham | DeWolf Hopper | | [75] |
Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | | [76] |
The Valley of Fear | Alexander Butler | Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell, Booth Conway | | [77] |
The Vixen | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | | [78] |
The Witch | Frank Powell | Nance O'Neil, Alfred Hickman | Adaptation of the 1903 play La Sorcière (The Sorceress) by French dramatist Victorien Sardou | [79] [80] |
The World's Great Snare | Joseph Kaufman | Pauline Frederick, Irving Cummings | | [81] |
1917 | Alimony | Emmett J. Flynn | Lois Wilson, George Fisher | Screen debut (uncredited) of Rudolph Valentino | [82] |
El Apóstol | Quirino Cristiani | | Argentine production believed to be the world's first animated feature film | [83] |
Australia's Peril | Franklyn Barrett | Roland Conway, Maie Baird | | [84] |
Birth Control | Margaret Sanger | Margaret Sanger | Documentary film produced by and starring the birth control activist Margaret Sanger was banned. | [85] |
Brcko in Zagreb (Brcko u Zagrebu) | Arsen Maas | Arnošt Grund, Stjepan Bojničić | First Croatian feature film [86] Only some images remain. | |
Camille | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabeled. The film remains lost. | [87] |
Cheerful Givers | Paul Powell | Bessie Love, Kenneth Harlan | | |
Cheyenne's Pal | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [88] |
A Country Hero | Roscoe Arbuckle | Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton | | [89] |
The Darling of Paris | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara Glen White | | [90] |
The Deemster | Howell Hansel | Derwent Hall Caine, Marian Swayne | | [91] |
Double Crossed | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [92] |
Der Golem und die Tänzerin | Paul Wegener | | First sequel to a horror film | [93] |
The Gray Ghost | Stuart Paton | Harry Carter, Priscilla Dean | A 16-part serial | [94] |
Great Expectations | Robert G. Vignola | Louise Huff | The first film adaptation of the 1861 novel | [95] |
Heart and Soul | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | | [96] |
Her Better Self | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [97] |
Her Greatest Love | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Walter Law | | [98] |
The Hidden Hand | James Vincent | Doris Kenyon, Sheldon Lewis | A 15-chapter serial | [99] |
Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki | Ōten Shimokawa | | First anime produced and released in Japan | |
Jim Bludso | Tod Browning, Wilfred Lucas | Wilfred Lucas, Olga Grey | Browning's directorial debut | [100] |
Life's Whirlpool | Lionel Barrymore | Ethel Barrymore | Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929 and the only time he directed his sister in a film | [62] |
Magda | Emile Chautard | Clara Kimball Young, Valda Valkyrien | | [101] |
A Marked Man | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [102] |
The Monk and the Woman | Franklyn Barrett | Maud Fane, Percy Marmont, Harry Plimmer | An Australian production | [103] |
The Mystery Ship | Harry Harvey, Henry MacRae, Francis Ford | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | An 18-chapter serial | [104] |
National Red Cross Pageant | Christy Cabanne | An all-star cast, including Ethel Barrymore, Lionel and John Barrymore | | [105] |
Nina, the Flower Girl | Lloyd Ingraham | Bessie Love | | |
A Night in New Arabia | Thomas R. Mills | Frank Glendon | | |
Polly Ann | Charles Miller | Bessie Love | | |
Red Saunders Plays Cupid | John Ford | Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey | A short | [106] |
The Rose of Blood | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Genevieve Blinn, Charles Clary | | [107] |
The Scrapper | John Ford | John Ford | A Western short | [108] |
The Silent Lie | Raoul Walsh | Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Charles Clary | | [109] |
The Siren | Roland West | Valeska Suratt, Isabel Rea, Cesare Gravina, Armand Kalisz | A Western | [110] |
Sleeping Fires | Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [111] |
Somewhere in Georgia | George Ridgwel | Ty Cobb, Elsie MacLeod | A movie featuring baseball legend Ty Cobb playing a fictionalized version of himself | [112] |
The Soul Herder | John Ford | Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey | | [113] |
Sowers and Reapers | George D. Baker | Emmy Wehlen, Frank Currier, Harry Davenport | | [114] |
The Voice on the Wire | Stuart Paton | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | A 15-chapter serial | [115] |
Wee Lady Betty | Charles Miller | Bessie Love, Frank Borzage, Charles K. French | | [116] |
1918 | Alraune | Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz | Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál | A Hungarian science-fiction horror film | [117] |
Arizona | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks | | [118] [119] |
Bees in His Bonnet | Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A comedy short | [120] |
Bound in Morocco | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | | [118] [121] |
The Dawn of Understanding | David Smith | Bessie Love | | [122] |
Five Thousand an Hour | Ralph Ince | Hale Hamilton, Lucille Lee Stewart, Douglas Gilbert | | [123] |
The Forbidden Path | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Hugh Thompson | | [124] |
A Gentleman's Agreement | David Smith | Gayne Whitman, Nell Shipman | | |
The Glorious Adventure | Hobart Henley | Mae Marsh, Wyndham Standing, Alec B. Francis, Mammy Lou, Mabel Ballin | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire | |
The Great Love | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish | This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle. | [125] |
The Greatest Thing in Life | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish | | [126] |
Headin' South | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | | [118] [121] |
The Hiding of Black Bill | David Smith | Walter Rogers, Chet Ryan | | |
How Could You, Caroline? | Frederick A. Thomson | Bessie Love, James W. Morrison, Dudley Hawley | | [127] |
Hit Him Again | Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short | [128] |
How Could You, Jean? | William Desmond Taylor | Mary Pickford | | [129] |
Huns Within Our Gates | | Derwent Hall Caine | Early World War I propaganda film. Also known as The Commercial Pirates and The Hearts of Men | [130] |
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | Rupert Julian | Rupert Julian | Early World War I propaganda film | [131] |
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany | Alfred J. Goulding | Harold Lloyd | | [132] |
The Lamb | Harold Lloyd, Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A short, one-reel comedy | [133] |
The Lion's Claws | Harry Harvey, Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp, Ray Hanford | An 18-episode serial | [134] |
A Little Sister of Everybody | Robert Thornby | Bessie Love, George Fisher | | [135] |
On the Quiet | Chester Withey | John Barrymore | | [136] |
Our Mrs. McChesney | Ralph Ince | Ethel Barrymore | | [137] |
The Phantom Riders | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [138] |
The Purple Dress | Martin Justice | Agnes Ayres, Adele DeGarde | | |
The Romance of Tarzan | Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln | The second Tarzan film produced | [139] |
Salomé | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | | [140] |
The Savage Woman | Edmund Mortimer | Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills | | [141] |
Say! Young Fellow | Joseph Henabery | Douglas Fairbanks | | [118] |
Sic 'Em, Towser | | Harold Lloyd | | [142] |
The Song of the Soul | Tom Terriss | Alice Joyce | | |
The Soul of Buddha | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Victor Kennard | | [143] |
A Successful Adventure | Harry L. Franklin | May Allison, Harry Hilliard | | |
That Devil, Bateese | William Wolbert | Lon Chaney | Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal | [144] |
Thieves' Gold | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [145] |
Three Mounted Men | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [146] |
Under the Yoke | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye | | [147] |
We Can't Have Everything | Cecil B. DeMille | Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter | | [148] |
What Happened to Jean | Herbert Walsh | Edith Crowe | Made to raise money for charity. Most of the cast and crew were amateurs. | [149] |
When a Woman Sins | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Josef Swickard | | [150] |
Wild Women | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [151] |
The Woman in the Web | Paul Hurst, David Smith | Hedda Nova | A 15-chapter serial | [152] |
A Woman's Fool | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [153] |
1919 | Ace of the Saddle | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [154] |
The Adventures of Ruth | George Marshall | Ruth Roland, Herbert Heyes | A 15-chapter serial | [155] |
Anne of Green Gables | William Desmond Taylor | Mary Miles Minter | | [156] |
The Avalanche | George Fitzmaurice | Elsie Ferguson | | [157] |
Bare Fists | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [158] |
The Beetle | Alexander Butler | Fred Morgan, Maudie Dunham | | [159] |
The Big Little Person | Robert Z. Leonard | Mae Murray, Rudolph Valentino | | [160] |
The Black Secret | George B. Seitz | Pearl White, Walter McGrail | A 15-chapter serial | [161] |
Bonds of Love | Reginald Barker | Pauline Frederick | | [162] |
The Cambric Mask | Tom Terriss | Maurice Costello, Alice Joyce | | |
Carolyn of the Corners | Robert Thornby | Bessie Love, Charles Edler, Charlotte Mineau | | [163] |
Count the Votes | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | | [164] |
Dalagang Bukid | José Nepomuceno | Atang Dela Rama, Marceliano Ilagan | It is the first Filipino feature film to be locally produced in the Philippines. Nearly all of Nepomuceno's works are lost. | [165] |
A Daughter of Eve | Walter West | Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome, Cameron Carr | | [166] |
The Divorcee | Herbert Blaché | Ethel Barrymore, E. J. Ratcliffe, Holmes Herbert | Barrymore's last silent film | [167] |
Elmo the Mighty | Henry MacRae | Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard | An 18-chapter serial | [168] |
The Enchanted Barn | David Smith | Bessie Love, J. Frank Glendon | | [169] |
A Fight for Love | John Ford | Harry Carey, John Big Tree | | [170] |
The Fighting Brothers | John Ford | Pete Morrison | A short Western | [171] |
A Fighting Colleen | David Smith | Bessie Love, Charles Spere | | [172] |
The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J. L. V. Leigh | Hector Abbas, Lionel D'Aragon | First film adapted directly from a work by H. G. Wells. Has been partially recreated as a series of still pictures. | [173] |
The Great Radium Mystery | Robert Broadwell, Robert F. Hill | Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves | An 18-chapter serial | [174] |
Halbblut | Fritz Lang | Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Carl Gerard Schröder | Lang's directorial debut | [175] |
The Hawk's Trail | W. S. Van Dyke | King Baggot, Grace Darmond | A 15-chapter serial | [176] |
He Leads, Others Follow | Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel comedy short | [177] |
Here Comes the Bride | John S. Robertson | John Barrymore, Faire Binney | | [178] |
Der Herr der Liebe | Fritz Lang | Carl de Vogt | This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role. | [179] |
His Only Father | Hal Roach, Frank Terry | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short | [180] |
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux, Jerry Mills | Charles D. Lucas | First feature length film directed by a Black filmmaker | [181] |
The Isle of Conquest | Edward Jose | Norma Talmadge | | [182] |
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, William A. Wellman | | [118] [183] |
The Lion Man | Albert Russell, Jack Wells | Kathleen O'Connor, Jack Perrin | An 18-chapter serial | [184] |
The Little Boss | David Smith | Bessie Love, Wallace MacDonald | | [185] |
Marked Men | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [186] |
The Midnight Man | James W. Horne | James J. Corbett, Kathleen O'Connor | An 18-chapter serial | [187] |
Nobody Home | Elmer Clifton | Dorothy Gish, Ralph Graves, George Fawcett, Rudolph Valentino | | [188] |
One Week of Life | Hobart Henley | Pauline Frederick | | [189] |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [190] |
Over the Garden Wall | David Smith | Bessie Love | | [191] |
The Rajah | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | A short | [192] |
The Red Glove | J. P. McGowan | Marie Walcamp, Pat O'Malley | An 18-chapter serial | [193] |
Rider of the Law | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [194] |
Riders of Vengeance | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [195] |
Roped | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [196] [197] |
Si, Senor | Alfred J. Goulding | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short | [198] |
Soft Money | Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | | [199] |
The Splendid Romance | Edward José | Enrico Caruso, Ormi Hawley, Crauford Kent | A print may be held by a private collector. | [200] |
Terror of the Range | Stuart Paton | George Larkin, Betty Compson | A seven-episode serial | [201] |
The Test of Honor | John S. Robertson | John Barrymore, Constance Binney | Barrymore's first dramatic role in a feature film | [202] |
The Undercurrent | Wilfrid North | Arthur Guy Empey | | |
The Unknown Quantity | Thomas R. Mills | Corinne Griffith | | |
The Wishing Ring Man | David Smith | Bessie Love, J. Frank Glendon | | [203] |
A Woman There Was | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe | | [204] |
A Yankee Princess | David Smith | Bessie Love | | [205] |