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.

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...
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 prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original sc...

Abby Hopkins, the eldest of a small-town newspaper-owner's five daughters, is urged by her family to...

Jones is a traveling salesman -- or drummer, as they were known in those days -- who peddles Bibles ...

Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollyw...

Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war...
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mo...

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

A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranc...

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to L...
The city chap arrives in a flivver and makes love to the daughter of the proprietor. The rival plays...

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

When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the deat...

While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstair...
Two convicts escape from the city jail and manage to elude their pursuers for quite a while, by cont...

The famous black cowboy Bill Pickett shows his prowess in rodeos. Only small parts of the film survi...