The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...
12th release in Lubin's "Patsy Bolivar" 1-reel comedy series.

A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.

Nate “Hate” Hammond is in business with his father and much sought after by mothers in the city who ...
A band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carryi...

Nancy Burton, niece of the sheriff, is in love with Deputy Tom Farrell, but she as an aversion to bl...

Martin, the heroine's father is falsely believed to be in league with fur thieves, but the real vill...
An escaped lunatic threatens the romance of his wife and her new suitor.
Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A p...

No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen'...

Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner'...
A young man in love with a cabaret dancer is refused money by his father. He joins the dancer and he...

Dean Randall is a hero of the Great War who comes home to his horse and his father's ranch. When bac...

A timid bank clerk has to toughen up during the search for a gang of bank robbers.
Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall...

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...
A short silent western produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
A short silent comedy produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.