All Films

This Is the Life

1914 • 11 min • United States of America

Farmer Stebbens and his son, Hiram, attend a convention in New York City, and while there become acquainted with two chorus girls, who lead them a merry chase, which costs the two rubes considerable.

The Real Thing in Cowboys

1914 • 12 min • United States of America

Elsie's idea of a real man was a dummy dressed like a cowboy, reckless and wild and woolly. Wallace Carey, a gallant city businessman, rich, attractive, and well dressed, was in love with her, but she wanted a real cowboy for a husband.

A Night With a Million

1914 • 12 min • United States of America

A clerk in a broker's office is accused of stealing a million dollars' worth of railroad bonds, but they are later found to be worthless, his innocence is proven, and he is given a promotion for his efforts.

Pétronille’s Despair

1914 • 8 min

Pétronille tries and fails to commit suicide, multiple ways, after her boyfriend Casimir dumps her. A morbid but amusing comedy.

The Adventure of a Journalist

1914 • 43 min • Germany

A detective film filled with exciting chases and daring stunts.

Venetian Shores

1914 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Blissful scenes of tourists arriving by boat and then sea bathing on a beach in the Venetian lagoon.

Balloon Accident at St Cloud

1914 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

Lejla

1914 • 11 min • Denmark

FRAGMENT | Lejla, a frivolous dressage rider, rides around with suitors and dances with death. Count Claes turns a deaf ear to all the warnings about Lejla’s behaviour. Claes only has eyes for Lejla’s beauty, but is blind to her rejections. Only when Claes offers to settle her debt does she become interested in marriage. Has Claus actually married the cat in the bag? (Stumfilm.dk)

The Lion, the Lamb and the Man

1914 • 13 min • United States of America

A spirited young college graduate is sent away to the Kentucky mountains to live with her uncle after returning home and scorning the effete minister her parents had chosen for her husband. One day, finding herself lost in the wilderness, she is rescued by two brothers who fall in love with her—but as they compete for her affections with increasing ferocity, her feelings become conflicted. Partially lost: the second of two reels survives.

Flowers in the Garden

1914 • 3 min • France

Short silent film about a flower garden from 1914.

The Death Mask

1914 • 20 min

A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.

An Elusive Diamond

1914 • 15 min • United States of America

A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape, and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative.

The Decoy

1914 • 16 min • United States of America

A rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable" couple of city "card sharpers" invite a distant country relative to visit, then use her as a pretty, unwitting decoy to lure rich victims. They flee town a step ahead of the law. At a resort, the innocent girl falls in love with the latest victim, but they help expose and apprehend the guilty parties.

In the Hands of Merciless Fate

1914 • 30 min • Russia

The Three Nordic Kings Meet in Malmo

1914 • 7 min

The three Nordic/Scandinavian Kings meet in Malmø, Sweden. King Gustav V of Sweden, King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway.

Laying the Foundation Stone of the St Sava Seminary

1914 • 5 min • Serbia

On the 27th April 1914 upon the old Calendar – the Julian calendar (the 10th May 1914 upon the new Calendar – the Gregorian calendar) the ceremonial sanctification of the foundation stone for future building of the Seminary of St. Sava in Belgrade quarter called Vracar was performed. A great number of Belgrade citizens attended this event alongside the clergy, students and professors of the Seminary.

Carmen

1914 • 38 min • Italy, Spain

In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

The Man Who Came Back

1914 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The son of a wealthy merchant fakes his own death to join up, but his heroic act at the Front is wrongly attributed to his cowardly cousin.

The Austrian Tragedy

1914 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The most earth-shattering news event of June 1914 seemed only a tremor at first, and took place far from any newsreel camera.

Making Auntie Welcome

1914 • 7 min • United States of America

Jack pretends to be crazy to get his aunt to cut her visit short. The maid sees him practicing his 'insanity' and thinks he's trying to kill his wife.

Christmas Church Parade

1914 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

Heart of Midlothian

1914 • 47 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

The Wonderful Fruit of the Tropics

1914 • 5 min • France

Beautiful stencil-coloured images of collecting (and eating) the fruit of India.

Pirates of the Plains

1914 • 35 min • United States of America

The first, and apparently only, surviving film produced by the Colorado Motion Picture Company, Pirates of the Plains is a quite well-made story about two brothers, one a champion rodeo rider, the other a horse thief.