The best movies 1912

A young lord elopes with an employee's daughter. The visit of a lady to her home causes the young wife to leave her husband. Years later the peer...

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen,...

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance.

A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her...

In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of...

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and...

Lost Slient​ Films.​ Based ​adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel

A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he...

Mrs. Grant, a widow, has one son, Donald. He is not really a bad fellow, but is full of devilment and always getting himself into mischief. One day,...

The devil performs his magical powers.

Young Ruth goes against her father's will and leaves to live with engineer Edvin Holm. Their life together will prove difficult.

Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph:...

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

Old Jim Struthers was a seaman and had a daughter, Mabel. Nobody knew how old Jim and his younger partner Bob made their living, although there was...

The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.

Film based on the assassination of the Spanish politician José Canalejas at Manuel Pardiñas's hands on 12 November of 1912. It has two...

Pyrenees mountain range, 17th century. Before dying, Diego de Robles, leader of a ruthless gang of highwaymen, has his daughter Carmen, a beautiful...

A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.

A trip to Kabilye.

Paco, a jealous and bitter man who is in love with Rosario, conspires in the shadows to bring about the downfall of Manuel, her husband.

Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th...

A house filled with spirits.

A trip to Mallorca.

Pascual Orozco's revolutionary struggle in northern Mexico.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

First Puerto Rican non-documentary film.

A short documentary about life in the basque city of Irun.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

French silent short from 1912