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 young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be re...
A husband is addicted to the habit of going duck-hunting occasionally. Wifey suspects that his objec...

In an early California settlement, Juanita, a dance hall queen of Castilian ancestry, knifes her lov...

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

When Harlan Carr inherited his Uncle Ebenezer's "Jack-O Lantern" house and too his bride there to li...

Mary Sundale is a young woman who spurns her childhood sweetheart to attach herself to a large group...
Indiana Stillwater, the daughter of a wealthy American railroad industrialist, marries English noble...

Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmead...
Heiress Rhoda Canby is badgered by her eccentric relatives Uncle Silas, Aunt Elizabeth, and Cousin H...
Clarence Brooks is a shy, timid man working for Mr. Flavell. He is love with Flavell's daughter, Nan...
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself on...

Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better...

Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a vill...

William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are t...

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.

A college graduate returns West after ten years in the East to her home in Sulfur Springs. Virginia'...

Johnson, a pharmacist, makes an illicit traffic in cocaine and morphine, which he cleverly sells thr...
Little Sonny Brown returns to his wretched poverty-stricken home one day to find that his father has...

The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witnes...