The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.

A sorrowing mother, bereft of her infant, visits a foundling asylum and adopts a baby girl. The you...

After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her ...
Jim is tasked with taking the daily deposit to the bank. On his way, he happens to overhear an inten...

The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in i...
A hunchback, sworn to revenge against a woman who rejected him, lures her stepdaughter Elaine to the...
Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker C...

Henry Minuet, son of the governor of New Amsterdam, travels to Danvers, now Salem, Mass., to buy gra...

Drama written by the film's star Linda Arvidson, under her married name Linda Griffith, was her both...
Young marrieds Paul, the Viscount De Sallure, and his bride Florence are in financial straits. Flore...

Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes ...

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in th...

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician na...
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a...

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, i...

The brute is a gambler, boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman. She is force...
Rena is a young woman of mixed race. Although she is romantically pursued by an upwardly mobile Afri...

Unscrupulous politician Mark Stetson frames Mr. & Mrs. Brandon and their friend Antoinette for a smu...

When burlesque dancer Elois Murree gives birth to her daughter Yvette, she sends to a fashionable bo...

Geological expert John Leighton naïvely introduces his flirtatious wife Emily to his boss, W. G. Gri...

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc...