Cecil B Demille's silent feature film version of Owen Wister's novel "The Virginian" starring Dustin Farnum.
A cowboy romances the local school teacher and helps apprehend a gang of cattle rustlers.

During the first world war, a young American woman's boat is torpedoed by a German U-Boat. When she manages to return to her ancestral country of France, she witnesses the German atrocities first hand.

This is Wallace Beery's first screen appearance (he plays a German soldier)

Stars: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Hobart Bosworth, Ben Alexander
Directed by Cecil B Demille
An Artcraft Picture

Hank Mann plays a laborer at the junkyard in this turbulent silent comedy short

A young man (Douglas Fairbanks) fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.

A Brazilian Beauty heads for New York City to help clear her brother from charges of murder.

When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake (Ed Brady) to file the claim. Dana (Charles King) is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana tries to kick the Temple group off their land. But Jack (Addison Randall) and sidekick Lucky (Hal Price) are on hand and plan to help them fight back.

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

From IMDb: Society girl and thrill-seeker Lydia causes the death of a motorcycle policeman, and is prosecuted by her fiancé, Daniel, who describes in lurid detail the downfall of Rome. While she's in prison she reforms, and Daniel becomes a wasted alcoholic. Stars: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, and Lois Wilson

Feature Film: "Against A Crooked Sky" Strange Indian tribe kidknapps a beautiful young pioneer woman.Her brother attemps to find and rescue her with the help of a scruffy drunken old trapper (Richard Boone).A story of self sacrifice, with a Biblical reference qoutation. Cast Includes: Richard Boone,Jewel Blanch,Stewert Peterson,Clint Ritchie.

An attempt to create a coherent narrative out of all surviving fragments of Australia's first feature length film. Sections from the final reel are heavily decomposed. Running at just over 20 minutes, this is possibly the longest available version. What the posters said: "A thrilling moving picture from start to finish" "The Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN." Written and Directed by Charles Tait 1868-1933 Released: December 1906 (Australia) January 1908 (Britain) 1910 (USA)

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