1914 Movies

Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high school diploma her parents thought she was a young lady now...

The Newer Woman is a 1914 silent film.

With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned in the dungeon of the royal palace. There she fin...

Comedian John Bunny on a train all confused.

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a lif...

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Aunt Mahaley knew Uncle Brewster was sporty, and when he went to the city to pay off his mortgage she warned him about being too free with his coin. H...

Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics, which I’ll touch on in an introduction before the screening. One of Eugene Buck’s m...

When a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.

A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.

The Price He Paid

The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen...

Short, silent movie about a female journalist who does a sensational article for the newspaper investigation opium smuggling.

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewis...

The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar w...

A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

Broncho Billy is requested to resign his office as sheriff. John Jenkin's son is appointed his successor. The new sheriff is given a severe fright a f...

In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.