All Films

Stout, Leader of Fashion

1914 • 11 min

A couple of country pumpkins go to the big city and learn a thing or two.

The Masked Amazon

1914 • 56 min • Italy

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.

Across the Pacific

1914 • 45 min • United States of America

The Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier finds little Elsie Escott, the only survivor,

Sea Dreams

1914 • 6 min • United Kingdom

First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy.

The Devil's Eye

1914 • 30 min • Germany

Andy Goes on the Stage

1914 • 14 min

A short comic film in which young André delivers a telegram to the theatre. Once there, he has to stand in for an actor during a performance of Little Lord Fauntleroy. Despite the chaotic performance, he is very successful.

In the Consul's Uniform

1914 • 39 min • Denmark

Consul Descombes is a married man, but yearns for long nights with female companionship in Paris. As fate would have it, one day he receives a letter from a former acquaintance named Lulu, who wants to take him to Paris. Descombes leaves under the pretence of going on a business trip. During his trip, the wife is visited by the consul’s superior and the nation’s prince, Louis XXXVIII. Much hilarity ensues.Stumfilm.dk

Threads of Destiny

1914 • 50 min • United States of America

Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.

The Convict's Story

1914 • 20 min • United Kingdom

In leaving his boarding house to attend a New Year's celebration given by Elizabeth, his sweetheart. Lawrence loses his invitation to the affair. Elizabeth receives a valuable necklace from her father. That night, the girl promised to marry Lawrence. As Lawrence takes Elizabeth in his arms, her necklace becomes entangled in his cuff link. The boy disengages the jewel and places it on the table. Shortly afterward, both leave the room. Elizabeth misses her necklace after Lawrence has gone home. Her father suspects Lawrence of having stolen it.

The Seneschal's Diamond

1914 • 16 min

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she can part with it. They waylay her and carry her off to a house where they demand from her the diamond. With a smile she shows them the receipt for a registered package as she had deemed it safer to send it by this means. Later she takes them off their guard and escapes. An exciting automobile chase now takes place, ending with the car in which the would-be diamond robbers are seated being hurled over the cliff to destruction.

Bully Boy

1914 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.

The Adventures of Kitty Cobb

1914 • 40 min • United States of America

Adventures of Kitty Cobb was adapted from a series of newspaper cartoons drawn by James Montgomery Flagg (of "Uncle Sam Wants YOU!" fame) for the New York World. Kitty Cobb is a Long Island lass who heads to New York City in hopes of landing a handsome inventor for her husband.

Alone with the Devil

1914 • 42 min • Denmark

The manufacturer Laroque stops at nothing when trying to destroy his enemies, and this time Fréderic Nessières, one of his competitors, is in the line of fire. With his diabolical, hypnotic power, Laroque has snared Nessières’s wife, Madeleine, in his evil web, and she will now do anything to help her husband’s enemy. But even though Laroque’s first plan to ruin Nessières fails, he does not give up. Once he has selected a victim, he will quite literally fight to the death to vanquish them. (stumfilm.dk)

Die moderne Jungfrau von Orleans

1914 • 14 min • Germany

A young woman is a cook in a noble house, but she reads her favorite drama "Joan of Arc" as often as she can while she works. But that's not all, she passionately enjoys slipping into the role of her heroine.

Shot in the Excitement

1914 • 12 min • United States of America

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.

Max as a Chiropodist

1914 • 13 min • France

Coming to visit a girl, Max presents himself as a pedicurist.

Det röda tornet

1914 • 43 min • Sweden

Professor Barclay travels with the young Dorian Holbein to the big city to oversee his violinist education.

Captain F.E. Kleinschmidt's Arctic Hunt

1914 • 16 min

Early artic documentary film.

Luny als Chinese

1914 • 12 min • Germany

Comedy short.

Cup Tie Final: Liverpool v Burnley 1914

1914 • 3 min

King George V attends the FA Cup Final, the last to be played at Crystal Palace. Newsreel Footage of the 1914 FA Cup Final between Burnley and Liverpool.

The Countess

1914 • 20 min • United States of America

A newspaper reporter takes a job as the butler of a countess in order to get a story; he graduates to the position of personal representative, bodyguard, and, finally, husband.

A Daughter of Eve

1914 • 55 min • Denmark

FRAGMENT | Solicitor von Ramm lives alone with his little daughter, whom he had with his teenage sweetheart Klara. At a party, he randomly encounters Klara, who has since married the talented pulmologist von Esmarck. Ramm gives into Klara’s desire to see their child again, and the love between them is suddenly rekindled. When the child falls ill, Ramm has to beg Dr. von Esmarck to help, and he finally relents only when Klara reveals that the child is hers. However, von Esmarck is wrongfully convicted of the murder of his old uncle, and Ramm must act as prosecutor against the doctor who just saved his child’s life. In connection with the trial, the scales fall from Klara’s eyes, and she now knows with certainty where her heart belongs. Stumfilm.dk

Lunch on the Eiffel Tower

1914 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Lunch on the Eiffel Tower held in honour of the visit of the representatives of foreign municipalities.

The Chest of Fortune

1914 • 20 min

Just when we think that this movie will be about a Southern family in Civil War days, the action jumps to modern-day 1914, still in the southern United States. Handsome Jack (Guy Coombs) is in love with the fair lady played by Marguerite Clayton.