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.

Gustavo and Ramón establish their own radio station, Radio Misterio, but life changes for Gustavo wh...
Otie Otis forgets his own marriage and then stumbles through the honeymoon, constantly forgetting on...

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all ...

Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the ...

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy ...

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been wo...

Nate “Hate” Hammond is in business with his father and much sought after by mothers in the city who ...

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original sc...

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

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to L...
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...
Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bail...