This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1915 to 1919.
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref | |
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1915 | Anna Karenina | The first American adaptation of the novel | [1] | |||
Bella Donna | [2] | |||||
The Black Box | A 15-chapter serial | [3] | ||||
By the Shortest of Heads | Last known copy destroyed in 1940 | [4] | ||||
Carmen | Theda Bara, Einar Linden | [5] | ||||
Destruction | [6] | |||||
The Devil's Daughter | Filmed on location in St. Augustine, Florida, this production marked Bara's fourth screen portrayal as a "vamp". | [7] [8] | ||||
The Diamond from the Sky | A 30-chapter adventure serial | [9] | ||||
Esmeralda | [10] | |||||
The Eternal City | One of the first American productions filmed in Rome | [11] | ||||
The Galley Slave | [12] | |||||
A Girl of Yesterday | [13] [14] | |||||
The Goose Girl | Frederick A. Thomson | [15] | ||||
Graft | A serial of 20 chapters | [16] | ||||
His Lordship's Dilemma | Possibly found in a Belgian film archive | [17] | ||||
Inspiration | [18] | |||||
Jim the Penman | [19] | |||||
The Kreutzer Sonata | Nance O'Neil, Theda Bara, William H. Shay | [20] | ||||
The Last Night of the Barbary Coast | Early example of an exploitation film, purportedly showing the last night of the Barbary Coast red-light district of San Francisco | [21] | ||||
Life Without Soul | The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein | [22] | ||||
Neal of the Navy | William Bertram, W. M. Harvey | A 14-chapter serial | [23] | |||
The New Exploits of Elaine | A 10-chapter serial | [24] | ||||
The Pine's Revenge | [25] | |||||
The Pretty Sister of Jose | Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan | [26] | ||||
Quits | Joseph de Grasse | A one-reel short | [27] | |||
The Romance of Elaine | A 12-chapter serial | [28] | ||||
Rupert of Hentzau | [29] | |||||
Sin | Theda Bara, William E. Shay | [30] | ||||
Sold | [31] | |||||
The Soul of Broadway | The debut film for Suratt, who played vamp roles in the vein of Theda Bara. All 11 of Suratt's films were destroyed in the 1937 Fox storage fire. | [32] | ||||
The Star of the Sea | [33] | |||||
Steady Company | A one-reel short | [34] | ||||
Temptation | [35] | |||||
The Threads of Fate | [36] | |||||
The Two Orphans | [37] | |||||
Under the Crescent | Ola Humphrey | A six-chapter serial | [38] | |||
The Valley of Lost Hope | Western involving a crashing locomotive | [39] | ||||
The Wild Goose Chase | [40] | |||||
Zaza | [41] | |||||
1916 | Acquitted | [42] | ||||
The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | A 15-chapter serial | [43] | |||
The Apostle of Vengeance | William S. Hart | An early Western. | [44] | |||
Audrey | [45] | |||||
The Black Butterfly | ||||||
Casey of the Coast Guard | A ten-part serial | [46] | ||||
A Daughter of the Gods | A few feet were held in the Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost. A still survives of Kellerman's nude scene, the first by a major actress. | [47] | ||||
The Dream Girl | One of the top-grossing films of 1916 | [48] | ||||
The Eternal Sapho | [49] | |||||
The Fall of a Nation | The first sequel (of The Birth of a Nation) | [50] [51] | ||||
data-sort-value="Flying Torpedo, The" | The Flying Torpedo | [52] | ||||
Gloria's Romance | [53] | |||||
Gold and the Woman | [54] | |||||
The Great Problem | Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams | [55] | ||||
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's | [56] | |||||
Hell-to-Pay Austin | [57] | |||||
Her Double Life | Theda Bara, Franklyn Hanna | [58] | ||||
Keechaka Vadham | Jeevarathnam, R. Nataraja Mudaliar, Raja Mudaliar | [59] | ||||
Lass of the Lumberlands | A 15-part serial | [60] | ||||
Liberty | A 20-chapter Western serial | [61] | ||||
McTeague | Barry O'Neal | [62] | ||||
Milestones | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list | [63] | ||||
Das Phantom der Oper | Ernst Matray | [64] | ||||
The Pioneers | Winter Hall | An Australian production | [65] | |||
The Real Thing at Last | L. C. MacBean, J. M. Barrie | Edmund Gwenn, Marie Lohr, Ernest Thesiger, Frederick Kerr, Pauline Chase | A parody of Macbeth, written by Peter Pan playwright J. M. Barrie | [66] [67] | ||
The Realization of a Negro's Ambition | Harry A. Gant | Bessie Baker, Lottie Boles, Clarence Brooks | This two-reel short was Lincoln Motion Picture Company's first production. | [68] | ||
Romeo and Juliet | Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard | [69] | ||||
The Scarlet Runner | Earle Williams, Marguerite Blake | A 12-chapter serial | [70] | |||
Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky | A four-chapter serial; the sequel to the 30-chapter serial The Diamond from the Sky | [71] | ||||
The Serpent | One of Theda Bara's many lost films | [72] | ||||
She | Will Barker, Horace Lisle Lucoque | Alice Delysia, Henry Victor, Sydney Bland | [73] | |||
data-sort-value="Sister of Six, A" | A Sister of Six | [74] | ||||
Stranded | [75] | |||||
Under Two Flags | [76] | |||||
The Valley of Fear | [77] | |||||
The Vixen | [78] | |||||
The Witch | [79] [80] | |||||
The World's Great Snare | [81] | |||||
1917 | Alimony | [82] | ||||
El Apóstol | Argentine production believed to be the world's first animated feature film | [83] | ||||
Australia's Peril | Roland Conway, Maie Baird | [84] | ||||
Birth Control | Margaret Sanger | Documentary film produced by and starring the birth control activist Margaret Sanger was banned. | [85] | |||
Brcko in Zagreb (Brcko u Zagrebu) | Arnošt Grund, Stjepan Bojničić | First Croatian feature film[86] Only some images remain. | ||||
Camille | A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabeled. The film remains lost. | [87] | ||||
Cheerful Givers | ||||||
Cheyenne's Pal | [88] | |||||
A Country Hero | [89] | |||||
The Darling of Paris | [90] | |||||
The Deemster | [91] | |||||
Double Crossed | [92] | |||||
Der Golem und die Tänzerin | First sequel to a horror film | [93] | ||||
The Gray Ghost | A 16-part serial | [94] | ||||
Great Expectations | [95] | |||||
Heart and Soul | [96] | |||||
Her Better Self | [97] | |||||
Her Greatest Love | [98] | |||||
The Hidden Hand | A 15-chapter serial | [99] | ||||
Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki | First anime produced and released in Japan | |||||
Jim Bludso | Browning's directorial debut | [100] | ||||
Life's Whirlpool | Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929 and the only time he directed his sister in a film | |||||
Magda | [101] | |||||
A Marked Man | [102] | |||||
The Monk and the Woman | Maud Fane, Percy Marmont, Harry Plimmer | An Australian production | [103] | |||
The Mystery Ship | Harry Harvey | An 18-chapter serial | [104] | |||
National Red Cross Pageant | [105] | |||||
Nina, the Flower Girl | ||||||
A Night in New Arabia | ||||||
Polly Ann | ||||||
Red Saunders Plays Cupid | A short | [106] | ||||
The Rose of Blood | [107] | |||||
The Scrapper | John Ford | A Western short | [108] | |||
The Silent Lie | [109] | |||||
The Siren | A Western | [110] | ||||
Sleeping Fires | [111] | |||||
Somewhere in Georgia | George Ridgwel | Ty Cobb, Elsie MacLeod | A movie featuring baseball legend Ty Cobb playing a fictionalized version of himself | [112] | ||
The Soul Herder | [113] | |||||
Sowers and Reapers | [114] | |||||
The Voice on the Wire | A 15-chapter serial | [115] | ||||
Wee Lady Betty | Charles Miller | Bessie Love, Frank Borzage, Charles K. French | [116] | |||
1918 | Alraune | Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz | Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál | A Hungarian science-fiction horror film | [117] | |
Arizona | [118] [119] | |||||
Bees in His Bonnet | A comedy short | [120] | ||||
Bound in Morocco | [121] | |||||
data-sort-value="Dawn of Understanding, The" | The Dawn of Understanding | [122] | ||||
Five Thousand an Hour | Hale Hamilton, Lucille Lee Stewart, Douglas Gilbert | [123] | ||||
The Forbidden Path | Theda Bara, Hugh Thompson | [124] | ||||
A Gentleman's Agreement | ||||||
The Glorious Adventure | ||||||
The Great Love | This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle. | [125] | ||||
The Greatest Thing in Life | [126] | |||||
Headin' South | ||||||
The Hiding of Black Bill | Walter Rogers, Chet Ryan | |||||
How Could You, Caroline? | Bessie Love, James W. Morrison, Dudley Hawley | [127] | ||||
Hit Him Again | A one-reel short | [128] | ||||
How Could You, Jean? | [129] | |||||
Huns Within Our Gates | Early World War I propaganda film. Also known as The Commercial Pirates and The Hearts of Men | [130] | ||||
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | [131] | |||||
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany | [132] | |||||
The Lamb | Harold Lloyd | A short, one-reel comedy | [133] | |||
The Lion's Claws | Marie Walcamp, Ray Hanford | An 18-episode serial | [134] | |||
data-sort-value="Little Sister of Everybody, A" | A Little Sister of Everybody | [135] | ||||
On the Quiet | [136] | |||||
Our Mrs. McChesney | [137] | |||||
The Phantom Riders | [138] | |||||
The Purple Dress | Martin Justice | |||||
The Romance of Tarzan | The second Tarzan film produced | [139] | ||||
Salomé | [140] | |||||
The Savage Woman | [141] | |||||
Say! Young Fellow | ||||||
Sic 'Em, Towser | [142] | |||||
The Song of the Soul | ||||||
The Soul of Buddha | Theda Bara, Victor Kennard | [143] | ||||
A Successful Adventure | Harry L. Franklin | May Allison, Harry Hilliard | ||||
That Devil, Bateese | [144] | |||||
Thieves' Gold | [145] | |||||
Three Mounted Men | [146] | |||||
Under the Yoke | [147] | |||||
We Can't Have Everything | [148] | |||||
What Happened to Jean | Herbert Walsh | Edith Crowe | Made to raise money for charity. Most of the cast and crew were amateurs. | [149] | ||
When a Woman Sins | [150] | |||||
Wild Women | [151] | |||||
A Woman in the Web | Hedda Nova | A 15-chapter serial | [152] | |||
A Woman's Fool | [153] | |||||
1919 | Ace of the Saddle | [154] | ||||
The Adventures of Ruth | A 15-chapter serial | [155] | ||||
Anne of Green Gables | [156] | |||||
The Avalanche | [157] | |||||
Bare Fists | [158] | |||||
The Beetle | [159] | |||||
The Big Little Person | [160] | |||||
The Black Secret | A 15-chapter serial | [161] | ||||
Bonds of Love | [162] | |||||
The Cambric Mask | ||||||
Carolyn of the Corners | [163] | |||||
Count the Votes | [164] | |||||
Dalagang Bukid | Atang Dela Rama, Marceliano Ilagan | It is the first Filipino feature film to be locally produced in the Philippines. Nearly all of Nepomuceno's works are lost. | [165] | |||
A Daughter of Eve | [166] | |||||
The Divorcee | Barrymore's last silent film | [167] | ||||
Elmo the Mighty | An 18-chapter serial | [168] | ||||
data-sort-value="Enchanted Barn, The" | The Enchanted Barn | [169] | ||||
A Fight for Love | [170] | |||||
The Fighting Brothers | A short Western | [171] | ||||
data-sort-value="Fighting Colleen, A" | A Fighting Colleen | Bessie Love, Charles Spere | [172] | |||
The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J. L. V. Leigh | Hector Abbas, Lionel D'Aragon | First film adapted directly from a work by H. G. Wells. Has been partially recreated as a series of still pictures. | [173] | ||
The Great Radium Mystery | An 18-chapter serial | [174] | ||||
Halbblut | Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Carl Gerard Schröder | Lang's directorial debut | [175] | |||
The Hawk's Trail | A 15-chapter serial | [176] | ||||
He Leads, Others Follow | A one-reel comedy short | [177] | ||||
Here Comes the Bride | [178] | |||||
Der Herr der Liebe | This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role. | [179] | ||||
His Only Father | Hal Roach, Frank Terry | A one-reel short | [180] | |||
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux, Jerry Mills | Charles D. Lucas | First feature length film directed by a Black filmmaker | |||
The Isle of Conquest | [181] | |||||
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | [182] | |||||
The Lion Man | Albert Russell, Jack Wells | An 18-chapter serial | [183] | |||
data-sort-value="Little Boss, The" | The Little Boss | [184] | ||||
Marked Men | [185] | |||||
The Midnight Man | James J. Corbett, Kathleen O'Connor | An 18-chapter serial | [186] | |||
Nobody Home | [187] | |||||
One Week of Life | [188] | |||||
The Outcasts of Poker Flat | [189] | |||||
Over the Garden Wall | [190] | |||||
The Rajah | A short | [191] | ||||
The Red Glove | Marie Walcamp, Pat O'Malley | An 18-chapter serial | [192] | |||
Rider of the Law | [193] | |||||
Riders of Vengeance | [194] | |||||
Roped | [195] [196] | |||||
Si, Senor | A one-reel short | [197] | ||||
Soft Money | [198] | |||||
The Splendid Romance | A print may be held by a private collector. | [199] | ||||
Terror of the Range | A seven-episode serial | [200] | ||||
The Test of Honor | Barrymore's first dramatic role in a feature film | [201] | ||||
The Undercurrent | ||||||
The Unknown Quantity | ||||||
data-sort-value="Wishing Ring Man, The" | The Wishing Ring Man | [202] | ||||
A Woman There Was | [203] | |||||
data-sort-value="Yankee Princess, A" | A Yankee Princess | [204] |