The Best Movies Of 1914

The infertility problems of a childless couple are solved by an extramarital affair that uses healing waters.

The Junior Commodore Cup Race in Venice, California, January 10 and 11, 1914, was disrupted by the Tramp who stood in the way of the cameraman who was filming the event.

A janitor was fired for accidentally hitting his boss with his bucket of water. illon, one of the junior managers, is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts. The manager took ...

Shadows of the Past was edited.

The movie was made by Keystone Studios. There is no known copy of this film.

An intensely unhappy woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer refuses to go through with it, leaving each baby with i...

A painter devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He tries t...

Johnnie, who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job, tries to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone studio, but doesn't win friends there.

A womanizing city man is in the country after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a lot of money for his workers, he convinces her to marry him.

Two criminals chase a policeman and his dog.

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost.

Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distingu...

A man uses a wheelchair.

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.

Mr. While trying to help a woman cross a puddle, the Tramp comes and intervenes.

Charlie is a clumsy waiter. He pretended to be an ambassador to impress a pretty girl. Her boyfriend is jealous.

A plastered man is making a nuisance of himself by following a pretty woman home.

A short comedy in which two lovers post their letters in a box in a tree. The old man gets wise and sets a snare, by which he catches Fatty's hand. The girl releases the snare and Fatty hooks the old ...

Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving parents.

Both the Allies and the Germans dug in as the Battle of the Aisne came to a close. Both sides moved around their western flank. The race began. The BEF moved to the western flank of the Allies. The st...

When a married couple are separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and beats her up. She sleepwalks into his room so that he can find her when he returns from his walk. There is a window ...

King Low-Brow rules the land and has a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land, he falls in love with the King's favorite wife. The King is presumed dead when he falls over a cliff. The King...

In this early film, he plays a different character than the one he would become famous for. When his girlfriend watches him being embraced by a maid, his romance is in danger. Minta Durfee was the wif...

A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.

A mystery film in which two people fall into a mysterious sleep coma; an Oriental hypnotist then tries to reawaken them.

Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile...

One of the earliest Pathécolor silent films.

Three men are competing for the affection of a girl. A hammer and bricks will be used by Charlie.

Two people are fighting in a dance hall.

The Tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and causes misunderstandings between himself and his lover.

Young Anthony March, living in London, inherits a considerable amount of money, but his crooked uncle Dr. Manuel Ceneri steals it. When Anthony gets suspicious, Ceneri's partner in crime, Macari, pers...

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

ARCHIVE: George Eastman House

The location was ideal for the transport of these gentle creatures to furriers that supplied the fashion industry.

A thin gent in formal wear at a party reads a book about a primitive man after a pretty lady ignores him. Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce but has a chance to defeat his rival and win her ...

A jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him, a policeman, and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping, are some of the problems Charlie is having in the park.

Two people get into a fight over a woman.

15-episode serial from which only fragments of 4 episodes survive today. Directed by Francis Ford.

This 1914 War patriotic melodrama tells the story of reconciliation between the remarried woman and her son.

Footage from the solar eclipse on the 21st of August 1914, filmed in Sollefteå and Stockholm.

The story of a nun who deserts her convent with a knight is told in the film. Megildis, who made her way through the world and its many vicissitudes, was replaced by a statue of the Virgin Mary.

A young man's thoughts turn dark as he ponders ways to deal with his uncle after he was prevented from continuing his love affair. He killed his uncle and hid the body. The man's conscience awakens an...

A film about Sioux leader Chief Gray Otter (Joe Goodboy) who sends his son Tiah (Sessue Hayakawa) off to a "white man's school" so that he can become a great leader. The son returns home as a worthles...

This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a sensational success and launched her as the most popular st...

Charlie woos a woman on a bench, only to have her boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to co...

A man chases a shoe store clerk he thinks made inappropriate advances towards his wife.

Colin Campbell directed the film The Spoilers. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex ...