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- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae MarshThe story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.David Griffith's major opus: four stories about intolerance throughout the ages and a pacifist epilogue
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsAllen HolubarDan HanlonEdna PendletonA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.The first adaptation of two of Jules Verne's novels: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, with the first under sea pictures in a feature film.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsPina MenichelliAlberto NepotiFebo MariFrau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy.An Italian diplomat falls in love with a mysterious Russian countess who is said to have led to suicide her former lover. Giovanni Pastrone successfully applies to the melodrama genre the innovative cinematographic language that he had developed in Cabiria.
- DirectorCharles SwickardWilliam S. HartClifford SmithStarsWilliam S. HartClara WilliamsJack StandingIn the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.An unusual Western which uses the freedom which existed before the Hays Code to cast as a villain a faithless Reverend who gets drunk in the local saloon, spends the night with one of the saloon girls and takes part in the arson of his own church.
- DirectorPhillips SmalleyLois WeberStarsTyrone Power Sr.Mrs. Tyrone PowerMarie WalcampA District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.This dramatization on the subjects of Eugenics, Birth Control and Abortion shows how fundamental moral issues could be shown on cinema during the 1910s and how moral values have shifted since then. Even more strongly than D.W. Griffith it defends the superiority of the white race and how it should be defended.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandAl St. JohnThe beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.This is one of the numerous slapstick comedies played by Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. It is a good example of his creativity in the use of gags alternating with periods of emotion.