Selig Polyscope Company Movies

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

Silent western starring Tom Mix

Miracles of the Jungle is a 1921 serial film

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

A silent American short drama

Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare...

A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This picture tells the very human story, or romance, of an unloved wife and mother, who, although possessing wealth and social position, craved the...

While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a...

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for...

Carrie Simpkins, a lady lawyer, arrives in a small western town and begins the practice of law. Pete, Jake and Jerry, three cowboys, fall in love...

The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the...

Archie Sheldon, determining to go to New York City, is given a letter by his mother to Thatcher Thole, Gotham's most unscrupulous financier. She...

Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank...

Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the...

The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister,...

A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.

Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.

Dick Carew, the son of a soap-maker, and Dorothy Wilton, the daughter of a lawyer, meet in Paris, where they have gone from America to imbibe an...