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Jeanne Doré

Jeanne Doré

1915 • 50 min • France
Jeanne Doré becomes the accomplice of her son Jacques who unfortunately commits a crime to help his mistress, Fanny, find money.
The Bachelor's Romance

The Bachelor's Romance

1915 • 40 min • United States of America
David Holmes, a misogynist and recluse, becomes the guardian of ten-year-old Sylvia after her father's death. He initially sends her to live in the country, but she returns as a young woman, and David is captivated by her beauty. He finds himself falling in love with her as he accompanies her to social events, and they are united by their mutual love.
Asquith Wedding

Asquith Wedding

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom
Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.
The Phantom Extra

The Phantom Extra

1915 • 20 min • United States of America
John Zeldon, the newly elected State senator and pledged to fight for the Miners' Bill, requiring the installation of new safety devices in the coal mines, in his speech to the miners the night before his departure, assures them that they can count on him to the last ditch.On his arrival in the capital he is taken up by Mr. Whalen, the brains of the lobby and secretly its chief, who flatters John and invites him out with a brilliant set of men and women who make a lion of him in order to gain his vote against the proposed bill. John's head is turned by their flattery and when Hazel Flemming, his fiancée and star reporter on his home paper, comes to the capitol for an interview with John, she is amazed to find him wavering and realizes the fight is lost unless she can make him realize the mistake he is making. To do this she has a phantom extra printed telling in thrilling headlines of a horrible accident in the coal mines, wherein 200 miners have lost their lives
The Argentina Valley, in the Ligurian Alps

The Argentina Valley, in the Ligurian Alps

1915 • 4 min
Travelogue about the Valle Argentina, Liguria in northwestern Italy.
Beautiful Thoughts

Beautiful Thoughts

1915 • 11 min
Henry Latimer's wife believes in "Beautiful Thoughts" that transform life. Her friend devises a plan to cure Mrs. Latimer of the fad.
Barnstaple Fair

Barnstaple Fair

1915 • 3 min • United Kingdom
Roll up, the fair's in town - even with a war on.
Cora

Cora

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Recently arrived from Paris to live with her friend Marie Cora meets artist George Garnier who Marie models for. George and Cora fall in love despite the fact he is engaged to wealthy Helen Van Brooks. Discovering the engagement Cora leaves and embarks on a hugely successful operatic career. Years pass until George, having cut ties with Helen, visits Cora again and restates his love. Helen, though she loves Carl Wilson, still wants George entreats Cora to leave him alone. Saddened Cora allows her admirer Jose to become too familiar; he attacks her and in the ensuing tussle falls to his death. Once all is clarified Helen elopes with Carl leaving Cora and George to at last have their happy ending.
Daughter of Tormented Poland

Daughter of Tormented Poland

1915 • 48 min • Russia
The Marvelous Marathoner

The Marvelous Marathoner

1915 • 13 min • United States of America
An energetic and vivacious Falstaff comedy with good pacing combining physical comedy (without slapstick) with situation comedy.
All for Old Ireland

All for Old Ireland

1915 • 33 min
Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has designs on Eileen, but Myles gives him a beating for his presumption. As a result, Fagin tells Reid that Myles is plotting against the Crown.
L'X Noir

L'X Noir

1915 • 41 min • France
A mysterious evildoer terrifies the French Riviera. That mysterious character, which is hidden under the personality of James Pearce, a diamond-maker, calls himself The Black X. This time, the Black X has noticed the rich jewels of a celebrated singer and, in the company of her henchmen, is preparing to carry out the great robbery.
Miss Soapsuds

Miss Soapsuds

1915 • 10 min • Germany
Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first directorial work and is one of the director's lost works. With the outbreak of World War I , all the men, including the barbers , are drafted. As a result, the women have to take over their work, and so mother and daughter share the work in a barber's shop: the daughter soaps the customers, while the mother then more or less skilfully shaves the men. A customer named Ernst also wants to be shaved. He makes eyes at the daughter and is resolutely thrown out of the shop by his mother. Ernst flees with his great love in the car and is followed by his mother on foot and finally on a tricycle.
Chimmie Fadden Out West

Chimmie Fadden Out West

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Chimmie is sent to Death Valley CA as part of a railroad scheme. He's to pretend to have discovered gold there, then set a new transcontinental record heading east. It doesn't quite work out that way.
A Safe Investment

A Safe Investment

1915 • 14 min
A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's started, and is making so much money that he brings it home by the basketful. Unbeknown to him, his wife, determined to prove that she's more capable than he thinks she is, takes the money and decides to invest it--in a new stock opportunity she's heard about.
Satanita, the She-Devil

Satanita, the She-Devil

1915 • 43 min • Denmark
Count Dörner and his son-in-law Baron Max are hunting in the forest when they come upon Zambo and Satanita, who are Roma travellers. Dörner and Max are so captivated by the eccentric Satanita that they decide to take her to their estate. It quickly becomes clear that Satanita prefers the young baron to the old count, although the latter still makes a spirited attempt to force some affection from her. Satanita and Max elope and get married, but Max soon realises that his wife is not what he dreamed of. Stumfilm.dk
Sarajevo, the Capital of Bosnia

Sarajevo, the Capital of Bosnia

1915 • 6 min • Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Short documentary showing the Sarajevo market and its downtown.
What Happened to Jones

What Happened to Jones

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Jones is a traveling salesman -- or drummer, as they were known in those days -- who peddles Bibles and playing cards at a discount. Along with Professor Goodly, he goes to a prize fight which is raided by the police. The two men wind up at a boarding school for young ladies where Jones is mistaken for the Bishop of Timbuctoo.
The Flaming Sword

The Flaming Sword

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Steve, a young college chap who has been unfortunate in his business career, after a life of dissipation, concludes that life is not worth living and contemplates suicide.
The Blissveldt Romance

The Blissveldt Romance

1915 • 24 min • United States of America
A silent film shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan. John Graham, a Jenison farm boy leaves his girlfriend for Grand Rapids after receiving an invitation for a banking job. While working there, Graham falls in love with a wealthy banker's daughter.
March of the Queen’s Own Regiment

March of the Queen’s Own Regiment

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom
Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.
Joffre

Joffre

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom
A cartoonist sketches out the grim stalemate of WWI through the metaphor of football.
The Haunting Fear

The Haunting Fear

1915 • 21 min • United States of America
Lured by Diana, Katherine runs away from home. The foolish girl is soon drawn into the whirlpool. She meets Mace, a notorious man-about-town, and is fascinated by him. Doctor Busby, an insane physician, recognizes in Mace the man who had caused his daughter's death. Shortly afterward, Katherine discovers Mace's real character. Wild with rage, she stabs him.
Across the Footlights

Across the Footlights

1915 • 20 min • United States of America
Larry Moore is a young amateur actor and lives at the same boarding house with Adele Lawrence, a rising young star, who has just secured the leading part in a play called "The Love Behind the Throne." Moore has been unsuccessful in his attempts to get a place and Adele sympathizes with him deeply.