After being passed over in the succession, Absalom rebels and raises an army to depose his father, King David.

During the Mexican Revolution, a female spy for the Mexican guerrilla fighters falls in love with an American lieutenant. When he is captured and threatened with execution, she turns to the Americans for help by climbing a telegraph pole, tapping the wire, and sending out a distress call.

Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling everyone aboard the train.

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian’s when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When ...

Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father’s rich friend.

On their honeymoon, Tammas and Mary have a bit too much to drink. The next thing they know, they are crash landing a balloon on a South Sea island. They are swarmed by cannibals, but the menacing headhunters back away in awe when Tammas begins playing his enchanted bagpipes.

Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short.

A thief notices a large amount of money in a woman’s purse when she opens it to pay her cab driver. He follows her onto the train and waits for her to doze off before snatching the cash. When she wakes up, finds her purse empty, and sees that the man is the only other person in the compartment, t...

A listless patrician in Rome is awakened by the love of a dancing slave, angering his jealous wife.

Lucie Manette discovers that her father is not dead, as she had always believed. He has just been released from the Bastille, where for decades he was being held for offending the Marquis St. Evrémonde. A short time later, Lucie meets and falls in love with Charles Darnay. The two marry, with Luc...

A fortune hunter is thwarted in his scheme to marry an heiress and becomes a beachcomber in the Philippines. When he learns that she is on her way to Manila, he takes desperate measures to get rid of his Filipino wife.

A wagon train of pioneers is ambushed by hostile Indians in this short home movie abridgment of Pioneer Trails.

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.

Jerusalem is in a state of rebellion against its Roman overlords. During a Roman procession, Judah Ben Hur wounds Valerius Gratus when he accidentally shakes loose a roof tile and it falls on the procurator. Messala — once Ben Hur’s friend, now a Roman legionary — betrays him and he is sent to th...

Blackbeard and his pirates sack the island of Martinique, forcing the governor to walk the plank and making a prisoner of his wife.

The enchantment of Cinderella’s fairy godmother allows her to attend the Prince’s ball but the spell is broken at midnight. In her haste to flee, Cinderella loses a slipper. The Prince, having fallen in love with the mysterious lady, vows to wed whosever foot fits the lost slipper.

Heir to an impoverished earldom, Lord Kewes travels to New York to marry a wealthy woman. He genuinely falls in love with Lilly but she returns his ring when she discovers why they were introduced.

David, a boy shepherd, defeats the giant Goliath and saves the people of Israel.

When a blind violin virtuoso’s vision is restored, his eyes wander from his homely beloved to a beautiful social butterfly.

Dr. Jekyll’s experiments to split man’s good and evil sides leads to the creation of Mr. Hyde and his own downfall in this, the earliest surviving screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella.

Good Dr. Jekyll seals his fate when his experiments unleash the evil within him.

In this modernized retelling of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll’s theory that man is composed of both good and evil natures drives him to develop a drug that he hopes will allow those natures to be separated. Tired of being continually ignored while the doctor devotes all ...

A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a homeless woman. Forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman, but when she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.

Lady Godiva rides naked through the streets of Coventry to save her people from an onerous tax in this short based on Tennyson’s poem “Godiva".