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Director: Joseph A. Golden    More Info
Starring: James O'Neill, Murdock MacQuarrie, Nance O'Neil, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer

 In this first film version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," action does not stray far from the novel. It tells the story of Edmond Dantes who, during imprisonment, learns of the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Later, he escapes, finds the treasure, and lives happily ever after with Mercedes. (James O'Neill was Eugene O'Neill's father.)

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Red Wing, William Elmer, Foster Knox, Hal Roach, Joseph Singleton, Dick La Reno, Fred Montague

 This is the first film of feature length made in Hollywood. The story involves settling the West and the love affair between Wyoming rancher James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and Native American Nat-U-Rich (Red Wing). This film was made again by Cecil B. DeMille in 1918 and 1931.

Director: D.W. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Donald Crisp, Raoul Walsh, Eugene Pallette, Elmo Lincoln

 With this epic film, Hollywood reached new heights in the production of extravaganzas. However, it is also an example of how filmmaking can be used as propaganda–in this case, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. The film begins with lifelong friends the Camerons (Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, and Mae Marsh) being separated from the Stonemans (Lillian Gish, Ralph Lewis, and Robert Harron) by the Civil War and the Mason Dixon line. When the war ends, Ben Cameron (Walthall) organizes a secret group, the Ku Klux Klan, to "restore" order. Music and battle noises were added for a 1930 reissue.

Director: Winthrop Kelley    More Info
Starring: Chester Barnett, Barbara Tennant, Fred Radcliffe, Lillian Cook, Edward Butler, Edith Conway, Lindsey J. Hall, Charles Hartley, Eric Mayne, Nellie Slattery

 An inventor hears of a treasure that sank off an island in the West Indies and, with the aid of tenants at his rooming house, he heads there with his new invention: a periscope-like device used to see underwater. Underwater photography was in its infancy when this film was made, and this was one of the first uses of the technique.

Director: Scott Sidney    More Info
Starring: Elmo Lincoln, Gordon Griffith, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham, George B. French, Eugene Pallette, Colin Kenny, Thomas Jefferson, Bessie Toner

 Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln) was raised in the African jungle by apes after his parents die. Years later, Tarzan's cousin, Greystoke (True Boardman), leads a search party and finds Tarzan. Greystoke's fiancee, Jane (Enid Markey), falls in love with Tarzan. The first of many "Tarzan" movies.