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.

Assuming the worst Geoffrey Challoner impulsively storms out of the house when he sees his new wife ...

Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmead...
David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city s...

Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Fol...

When Harlan Carr inherited his Uncle Ebenezer's "Jack-O Lantern" house and too his bride there to li...
The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero...
A girl believes her friend's fiance is hiding a false leg and intends to prove it.
Comedy of a school marm teaching a social climber some life lessons.

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with...
The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recove...

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who figh...

A young man's journey into adulthood, love, and ambition, inspired by a serial by George Randolph Ch...

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of dr...
Katie Abbott, despairing of being a wallflower, is about to attempt suicide in the village pond when...

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up...
Pa Glitters and his daughter are beset upon by Slippery Ike who is intent on separating them from th...

In Jedda, Persia, American consul George Gage, known as a woman hater, is shocked when his newly arr...