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Director: Edwin S. Porter    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford, Louise Dunlap, William Walters, Richard Garrick, Eugene Walter, Jack Henry, H.R. Macy

 When Tess' (Mary Pickford) father (David Hartford) is wrongly convicted of murder and goes to jail, Tess is befriended by Frederick (Harold Lockwood) and his sister Teola (Olive Carey). Tess comes to Teola's aid after Teola becomes pregnant, and her lover Dan (Jack Henry) dies. Tess pretends to be the infant's mother to save Teola from disgrace. Now, Tess goes through trials and tribulations but, by story's end, will live happily ever after with Frederick who is the love of her life.

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: D.W. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Howard Gaye, Elmo Lincoln, Walter Long, Bessie Love, Tully Marshall, Erich von Stroheim, Monte Blue, Donald Crisp

 This great film presents four stories, each in a different era from ancient Babylon to the present. All of the stories involve man's intolerance to man. The stories include a mountain girl in Babylonia and religious rivalry at the time, Pharisees' condemnation of Jesus Christ, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris and how it coincides with two Huguenots preparing for marriage, and social reformers in modern America destroying the lives of a young couple.

Director: Cecil B. MeMille    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Wallace Beery, Hobart Bosworth, DeWitt Jennings, Ben Alexander, Carl Gerard, Walter Long, James Neill

 The year is 1914, and American Angela Moore (Mary Pickford) has two suitors–Karl is from Germany, and Jules is French. Then war breaks out, and Karl and Jules return to their countries to fight. Angela sails for France to visit her aunt, but her ship is sunk by a U-boat. Angela survives and goes to her aunt's chateau where she learns that her aunt has died. Angela has inherited her aunt's chateau. The Germans attack, and Angela begins to send messages to the Allies but is caught and sentenced to be executed. Karl comes to her aid, denounces the Kaiser, and is also sentenced. Now, the French, along with Jules, arrive in time to free Mary and Karl who then sail back to the United States.

Director: John Emerson    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell, Joseph Singleton, Calvert Carter, Forrest Seabury, J.W. Jones, Charles Stevens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson

 Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) lives with his wealthy family in New York but is obsessed with the Wild West of the 1880s. His father (Walter Bytell) sends him on a business trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, which Jeff believes is still "Wild and Woolly." The residents of Bitter Creek want to please Jeff and transform their peaceful village into a lawless community to fulfill Jeff's fantasy.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Theodore Kosloff, Hobart Bosworth, Julia Faye

 Set in the last moments of the Aztec Empire, Geraldine Farrar plays Teca–Montezuma's (Raymond Hatton) daughter. To save her mother, Alvarado (Wallace Reid), from certain death, Teca leads Cortez (Hobart Bosworth) and his invasion forces into the center of the Aztec world.

Director: D.W. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Beranger, Norman Selby, Wilbur Higby, Moon Kwan, George Nichols

 In this D.W. Griffith silent classic, Lillian Gish plays the undernourished, abused daughter of a brutal prizefighter, Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp). When she passes out in front of a shop owned by a newly arrived Chinaman (Richard Barthelmess), he takes her in and attempts to protect her from her father. He had also loved her from afar before rescuing her. Alas, her father finds out where she is hiding.

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: Harry Carey, Cullen Landis, Gloria Hope, Joe Harris, Duke R. Lee, J. Farrell MacDonald, Charles Hill Mailes, Vester Pegg, Victor Potel

 In this silent-film version of Bret Harte's story, Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon (Harry Carey) is in love with a younger woman (Gloria Hope) but believes she will end up with a younger man (Cullen Landis). Then he picks up a book and reads about a gambler, John Oakhurst (also Harry Carey), whose adopted son Tommy (also Cullen Landis) is in love with the woman (also Gloria Hope) that he is interested in. In the book, John sacrifices himself so that Tommy will get the girl. After finishing the story, Square Shootin' Harry puts down the book and, unlike John, goes after the girl himself.

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: Harry Carey, Seena Owen, Joe Harris, J. Farrell MacDonald, Alfred Allen, Jennie Lee, Clita Gale, Vester Pegg

 In this early John Ford silent-film, Harry Carey takes the role of Cheyenne Harry who tracks down the gang of outlaws who killed his family. While in pursuit of the outlaws, Cheyenne Harry finds time to rescue the sheriff's (Joe Harris) fiancee (Seena Owen).