Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
1915 | Anna Karenina | J. Gordon Edwards | Betty Nansen, Edward José | The first American adaptation of the novel. | [1] |
Bella Donna | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [2] |
The Black Box | Otis Turner | Herbert Rawlinson | A 15-chapter serial. | [3] |
Carmen | Raoul Walsh | Theda Bara, Einar Linden | | [4] |
Chimmie Fadden | Cecil B. DeMille | Victor Moore | | [5] |
Destruction | Will S. Davis | Theda Bara | | [6] |
The Devil's Daughter | Frank Powell | Theda Bara | | [7] |
The Diamond from the Sky | Jacques Jaccard, William Desmond Taylor | Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, William Russell | A 30-part adventure serial. | [8] |
Esmerelda | James Kirkwood | Mary Pickford | | [9] |
The Eternal City | Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | One of the first American productions filmed in Rome. | [10] |
The Galley Slave | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Stuart Holmes | | [11] |
A Girl of Yesterday | Allan Dwan | Mary Pickford, Frances Marion, Glenn L. Martin | | [12][13] |
The Goose Girl | Frederick A. Thomson | Marguerite Clark | | [14] |
Graft | George Lessey, Richard Stanton | Harry Carey | A serial of 20 chapters. | [15] |
Inspiration | George Foster Platt | Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran | | [16] |
Jim the Penman | Edwin S. Porter | John B. Mason, Harold Lockwood | | [17] |
The Last Night of the Barbary Coast | Hal Mohr, Sol Lesser | | Early example of an exploitation film, purportedly showing the last night of the Barbary Coast red-light district of San Francisco. | [18] |
Life Without Soul | Joseph W. Smiley | Percy Standing | The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein. | [19] |
Neal of the Navy | William Bertram, W. M. Harvey | William Courtleigh, Jr. Lillian Lorraine | A 14-part serial. | [20] |
The New Exploits of Elaine | Louis J. Gasnier, Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Pearl White, Creighton Hale | A serial of ten chapters. | [21] |
The Pine's Revenge | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney Cleo Madison | | [22] |
The Pretty Sister of Jose | Allan Dwan | Marguerite Clark, Jack Pickford, Rupert Julian | Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan. | [23] |
Quits | Joseph de Grasse | Arthur Shirley, Lon Chaney | A one-reel short | [24] |
The Romance of Elaine | George B. Seitz | Pearl White | A 12-chapter serial. | [25] |
Rupert of Hentzau | George Loane Tucker | Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Gerald Ames | | [26] |
Sin | Herbert Brenon | Theda Bara, William E. Shay | | [27] |
Sold | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [28] |
The Star of the Sea | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush | | [29] |
Steady Company | Joe De Grasse | Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush | A one-reel short. | [30] |
Temptation | Cecil B. DeMille | Geraldine Farrar, Theodore Roberts, Pedro de Cordoba | | [31] |
The Threads of Fate | Joe De Grasse | Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan, Lon Chaney | | [32] |
The Two Orphans | Herbert Brenon | Theda Bara | Later remade by D. W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish. | [33] |
Under the Crescent | Burton L. King | Ola Humphrey | A six-chapter serial. | [34] |
The Valley of Lost Hope | Romaine Fielding | Romaine Fielding, Mildred Gregory, Peter Lang | Western involving a crashing locomotive. | |
The Wild Goose Chase | Cecil B. DeMille | Ina Claire | | [36] |
Zaza | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [37] |
1916 | The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring | Francis Ford, Jacques Jaccard | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | A 15-chapter serial. | [38] |
The Apostle of Vengeance | William S. Hart | William S. Hart | An early Western. | [39] |
Audrey | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [40] |
Casey of the Coast Guard | William Nigh | George O'Hara, Helen Ferguson | A ten-part serial. | [41] |
A Daughter of the Gods | Herbert Brenon | Annette Kellerman | A few feet were held in the Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost. A still survives of Kellerman's nude scene, the first by a major actress. | [42] |
The Dream Girl | Cecil B. DeMille | Mae Murray | | [43] |
The Eternal Sapho | Bertram Bracken | Theda Bara | | [44] |
Gloria's Romance | Walter Edwin, Colin Campbell | Billie Burke, Henry Kolker, David Powell | | [45] |
Gold and the Woman | James Vincent | Theda Bara, Alma Hanlon | | [46] |
The Great Problem | Rex Ingram | Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams | | [47] |
Her Double Life | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Franklyn Hanna | | [48] |
Keechaka Vadham | R. Nataraja Mudaliar | Jeevarathnam, R. Nataraja Mudaliar, Raja Mudaliar | First silent film produced in South India. | [49] |
Lass of the Lumberlands | Paul Hurst, J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, Thomas G. Lingham | A 15-part serial. | [50] |
Liberty | Jacques Jaccard, Henry MacRae | Marie Walcamp, Jack Holt | A Western serial of 20 chapters. |
[51] |
Luke's Double | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel comedy short. | [52] |
McTeague | Barry O'Neal | Holbrook Blinn, Fania Marinoff | | [53] |
Milestones | Thomas Bentley | Isobel Elsom | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [54] |
Das Phantom der Oper | Ernst Matray | Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen | | [55] |
The Pioneers | Franklyn Barrett | Winter Hall | An Australian production. | [56] |
The Realization of a Negro's Ambition | Harry A. Gant | Bessie Baker, Lottie Boles, Clarence Brooks | This two-reel short was Lincoln Motion Picture Company's first production. | [57] |
Romeo and Juliet | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard | | [58] |
The Scarlet Runner | William P. S. Earle, Wally Van | Earle Williams, Marguerite Blake | A serial with 12 chapters. | [59] |
Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky | Edward Sloman | William Russell, Rhea Mitchell | A four-chapter followup to the serial The Diamond from the Sky. | [60] |
The Serpent | Raoul Walsh | Theda Bara | One of Theda Bara's many lost films. | [61] |
She | Will Barker, Horace Lisle Lucoque | Alice Delysia, Henry Victor, Sydney Bland | | [62] |
Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | | [63] |
The Valley of Fear | Alexander Butler | Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell, Booth Conway | | [64] |
The Vixen | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | | [65] |
The World's Great Snare | Joseph Kaufman | Pauline Frederick, Irving Cummings | | [66] |
1917 | Alimony | Emmett J. Flynn | Lois Wilson, George Fisher | Screen debut (uncredited) of Rudolph Valentino. | [67] |
El Apóstol | Quirino Cristiani | | Argentine production believed to be the world's first animated feature film. | [68] |
Australia's Peril | Franklyn Barrett | Roland Conway, Maie Baird | | [69] |
Brčko u Zagrebu (Brčko in Zagreb) | Arsen Maas | Stjepan Bojničić | First Croatian feature film.[70] Only some images remain. | |
Camille | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabelled. The film remains lost. | [71] |
Cheyenne's Pal | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [72] |
A Country Hero | Roscoe Arbuckle | Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton | | [73] |
The Darling of Paris | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara Glen White | | [74] |
Double-Crossed | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [75] |
Der Golem und die Tänzerin | Paul Wegener | | First sequel to a horror film. | [76] |
The Gray Ghost | Stuart Paton | Harry Carter, Priscilla Dean | A 16-part serial. | [77] |
Heart and Soul | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | | [78] |
Her Better Self | Robert G. Vignola | Pauline Frederick | | [79] |
Her Greatest Love | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Walter Law | | [80] |
The Hidden Hand | James Vincent | Doris Kenyon, Sheldon Lewis | A serial in 15 parts. | [81] |
Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki | Ōten Shimokawa | | First anime produced and released in Japan. | |
Jim Bludso | Tod Browning, Wilfred Lucas | Wilfred Lucas, Olga Grey | Browning's directorial debut. | [82] |
Life's Whirlpool | Lionel Barrymore | Ethel Barrymore | Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929, and the only time he directed his sister in a film. | [53] |
Magda | Emile Chautard | Clara Kimball Young, Valda Valkyrien | | [83] |
A Marked Man | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [84] |
The Monk and the Woman | Franklyn Barrett | Maud Fane, Percy Marmont, Harry Plimmer | An Australian production. | [85] |
The Mystery Ship | Harry Harvey, Henry MacRae, Francis Ford | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | An 18-chapter serial. | [86] |
National Red Cross Pageant | Christy Cabanne | An all-star cast, including Ethel Barrymore, Lionel and John Barrymore | | [87] |
Red Saunders Plays Cupid | John Ford | Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey | A short. | [88] |
The Rose of Blood | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Genevieve Blinn, Charles Clary | | [89] |
The Scrapper | John Ford | John Ford | A Western short. | [90] |
The Silent Lie | Raoul Walsh | Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Charles Clary | | [91] |
Sleeping Fires | Hugh Ford | Pauline Frederick | | [92] |
The Soul Herder | John Ford | Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey | | [93] |
The Voice on the Wire | Stuart Paton | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | A serial in 15 chapters. | [94] |
1918 | Alraune | Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz | Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál | A Hungarian science-fiction horror film. | [95] |
Arizona | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks | | [96][97] |
Bees in His Bonnet | Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A comedy short. | [98] |
Bound in Morocco | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | | [96][99] |
The Craving | John Ford, Francis Ford | Francis Ford | | [100] |
Follow the Crowd | Alfred J. Goulding | Harold Lloyd | | [101] |
The Forbidden Path | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Hugh Thompson | | [102] |
The Great Love | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish | This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle. | [103] |
The Greatest Thing in Life | D. W. Griffith | Lillian Gish | | [104] |
Headin' South | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | | [96][99] |
Hit Him Again | Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short. | [105] |
How Could You, Jean? | William Desmond Taylor | Mary Pickford | | [106] |
Huns Within Our Gates | | Derwent Hall Caine | Early World War I propaganda film. Also known as The Commercial Pirates and The Hearts of Men. | [107] |
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | Rupert Julian | Rupert Julian | Early World War I propaganda film. | [108] |
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany | Alfred J. Goulding | Harold Lloyd | | [109] |
The Lamb | Harold Lloyd, Gilbert Pratt | Harold Lloyd | A short, one-reel comedy. | [110] |
The Lion's Claws | Harry Harvey, Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp, Ray Hanford | An 18-episode serial. | [111] |
On the Quiet | Chester Withey | John Barrymore | | [112] |
Our Mrs. McChesney | Ralph Ince | Ethel Barrymore | | [113] |
The Phantom Riders | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [114] |
The Romance of Tarzan | Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln | The second Tarzan film produced. | [115] |
Salomé | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara | | [116] |
The Savage Woman | Edmund Mortimer | Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills | | [117] |
Say! Young Fellow | Joseph Henabery | Douglas Fairbanks | | [96] |
Sic ’em Towser | | Harold Lloyd | | [118] |
The Soul of Buddha | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Victor Kennard | | [119] |
That Devil, Bateese | William Wolbert | Lon Chaney | Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal. | [120] |
Thieves' Gold | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [121] |
Three Mounted Men | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [122] |
Under the Yoke | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye | | [123] |
We Can't Have Everything | Cecil B. DeMille | Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter | | [124] |
When a Woman Sins | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Josef Swickard | | [125] |
Wild Women | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [126] |
A Woman in the Web | Paul Hurst, David Smith | Hedda Nova | A serial composed of 15 episodes. | [127] |
A Woman's Fool | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [128] |
1919 | Ace of the Saddle | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [129] |
The Adventures of Ruth | George Marshall | Ruth Roland, Herbert Heyes | A 15-part serial. | [130] |
Anne of Green Gables | William Desmond Taylor | Mary Miles Minter | | [131] |
The Avalanche | George Fitzmaurice | Elsie Ferguson | | [132] |
Bare Fists | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [133] |
Beware | William Nigh | Maurine Powers, Regina Quinn | Early Warner Bros. propaganda war films | [134] |
The Big Little Person | Robert Z. Leonard | Mae Murray, Rudolph Valentino | | [135] |
The Black Secret | George B. Seitz | Pearl White, Walter McGrail | A 15-chapter serial. | [136] |
Bonds of Love | Reginald Barker | Pauline Frederick | | [137] |
Count the Votes | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | | [138] |
A Daughter of Eve | Walter West | Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome, Cameron Carr | | [139] |
The Divorcee | Herbert Blaché | Ethel Barrymore, E. J. Ratcliffe, Holmes Herbert | This was Barrymore's last silent film. | [140] |
Elmo the Mighty | Henry MacRae | Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard | An 18-part serial. | [141] |
A Fight for Love | John Ford | Harry Carey, John Big Tree | | [142] |
The Fighting Brothers | John Ford | Pete Morrison | A short Western. | [143] |
The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J. L. V. Leigh | Hector Abbas, Lionel D'Aragon | First film adapted directly from a work by H. G. Wells. | [144] |
The Great Radium Mystery | Robert Broadwell, Robert F. Hill | Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves | A serial in 18 chapters. | [145] |
Halbblut | Fritz Lang | Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Carl Gerard Schröder | Lang's directorial debut. | [146] |
The Hawk's Trail | W. S. Van Dyke | King Baggot, Grace Darmond | A 15-chapter serial. | [147] |
He Leads, Others Follow | Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel comedy short. | [148] |
Here Comes the Bride | John S. Robertson | John Barrymore, Faire Binney | | [149] |
Der Herr der Liebe | Fritz Lang | Carl de Vogt | This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role. | [150] |
His Only Father | Hal Roach, Frank Terry | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short. | [151] |
The Isle of Conquest | Edward Jose | Norma Talmadge | | [152] |
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, William A. Wellman | | [96][153] |
The Lion Man | Albert Russell, Jack Wells | Kathleen O'Connor, Jack Perrin | An 18-part serial. | [154] |
The Loves of Letty | Frank Lloyd | Pauline Frederick | | [155] |
Marked Men | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [156] |
The Midnight Man | James W. Horne | James J. Corbett, Kathleen O'Connor | An 18-part serial. | [157] |
Nobody Home | Elmer Clifton | Dorothy Gish, Ralph Graves, George Fawcett, Rudolph Valentino | | [158] |
One Week of Life | Hobart Henley | Pauline Frederick | | [159] |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [160] |
The Rajah | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | A short. | [161] |
The Red Glove | J. P. McGowan | Marie Walcamp, Pat O'Malley | A serial comprising 18 episodes. | [162] |
Rider of the Law | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [163] |
Riders of Vengeance | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [164] |
Roped | John Ford | Harry Carey | | [165][166] |
Si, Senor | Alfred J. Goulding | Harold Lloyd | A one-reel short. | [167] |
Soft Money | Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | | [168] |
The Splendid Romance | Edward José | Enrico Caruso, Ormi Hawley, Crauford Kent | A print may be held by a private collector. | [169] |
Terror of the Range | Stuart Paton | George Larkin, Betty Compson | A serial comprising seven episodes. | [170] |
The Test of Honor | John S. Robertson | John Barrymore, Constance Binney | Barrymore's first dramatic role in a film. | [171] |
A Woman There Was | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe | | [172] |