Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Richard Christensen, Christian Engelstoft, Hallander Helleman, Halvard Hoff
Genre: Drama, Silent
Country: Denmark
The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, and is rather sure that she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn’t want to marry her.
Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Genre: Drama, Horror, War, Silent
Country: France
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Marion Davies, Norman Kerry, Matt Moore
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.