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 ...

Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Li...

Homesteaders battle a cattle baron, who is trying to drive them off the lands they have settled on s...

In an early California settlement, Juanita, a dance hall queen of Castilian ancestry, knifes her lov...
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with...

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of dr...

A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through ...

Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophistica...

A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinste...
David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city s...
A very rare lost film by Pathe Exchange that was found by Ben Model on eBay and preserved in time. N...
A girl believes her friend's fiance is hiding a false leg and intends to prove it.

Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains...

American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nick...

The Youngloves have a cozy little apartment and a jewel of a cook, Bridget, and are happy until the ...

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

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...
Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their six children start out for a picnic in the woods with youngest son Jimm...

A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.

Betty is away at college when her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Bunny, come to visit. Mr. Bunny goes for a str...