List of lost silent films (1910–1914)

This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1910 to 1914.

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1910	Il Trovatore	Louis J. Gasnier, Ugo Falena	Francesca Bertini, Gemma Farina, Alberto Vestri	An adaptation, by Film d'Arte Italiana, of the Gutiérrez play, with a special music score adapted from Verdi.	[1][2]
	Jean and the Calico Doll	Laurence Trimble	Jean	Film debut of Helen Hayes	[3][4]
1911	Back to the Soil	Thomas H. Ince	King Baggot, Mary Pickford, Owen Moore	A drama short.	[5]
	The Better Way	?	King Baggot, Mary Pickford, Owen Moore	A drama short.	[6]
	Billy the Kid	Laurence Trimble	Tefft Johnson, Edith Storey	A one-reel western short.	[7]
	The Fisher-Maid	Thomas H. Ince	Mary Pickford, Owen Moore	A short.	[8]
	For Her Brother's Sake	Thomas H. Ince	Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Jack Pickford, Thomas H. Ince	A one-reel short.	[9]
	For the Queen's Honor	Thomas H. Ince	Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, King Baggot, George Loane Tucker, Isabel Rea	A short.	[10]
	Her Darkest Hour		Mary Pickford	A short.	[11]
	His Dress Shirt		Mary Pickford	A short.	[12]
	The Immortal Alamo	William F. Haddock	Francis Ford	Earliest film of the Battle of the Alamo, shot at the Alamo itself.	[13][14]
	Love Heeds Not the Showers	Owen Moore	Mary Pickford, Owen Moore	A one-reel short.	[15]
	Only a Factory Girl			Australian drama.	[16]
	The Rose's Story		Mary Pickford	A short.	[17]
	Science		Mary Pickford, King Baggot	A short.	[18]
	Second Sight		Mary Pickford	A short.	[19]
	The Sentinel Asleep		Mary Pickford	A short.	[20]
	The Toss of a Coin	Thomas H. Ince	Mary Pickford, Irvin Willat, Ethel Grandin, Lottie Pickford	A one-reel short.	[21]
1912	The Honor of the Family		Lon Chaney	Thought by some to be Chaney's on-screen debut, though this is disputed.	[22]
	Honor Thy Father		Mary Pickford, Owen Moore	A one-reel short.	[23]
	Saved from the Titanic	Étienne Arnaud	Dorothy Gibson	First film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, released just 29 days after the disaster. Gibson was an actual Titanic survivor.	[24][25]
1913	Adrienne Lecouvreur	Louis Mercanton Henri Desfontaines	Sarah Bernhardt	A two-reeler.	[26]
	Almost an Actress	Allen Curtis	Louise Fazenda		[27]
	Back to Life	Allan Dwan	Pauline Bush, J. Warren Kerrigan, William Worthington	A 20-minute short, with Lon Chaney.	[28]
	The Battle of Gettysburg	Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince	Willard Mack, Charles K. French	The film was reported to have been screened in France in 1973. Mack Sennett arranged to shoot Cohen Saves the Flag alongside the production of Gettysburg, surreptitiously capturing Ince's battle sequences in his film at no cost to himself. This indirect footage survives.[29]	[30]
	Bloodhounds of the North	Allan Dwan	Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, William Lloyd	A 20-minute short, with Lon Chaney.	[31]
	Caprice	J. Searle Dawley	Mary Pickford, Owen Moore		[32]
	The Crisis	W. J. Lincoln	Roy Redgrave, Godfrey Cass	An Australian melodrama.	[33]
	An Elephant on His Hands	Al Christie	Eddie Lyons, Lee Moran, Ramona Langley	A one-reel short.	[34]
	Evangeline	Edward P. Sullivan, William Cavanaugh	Laura Lyman, John F. Carleton	The first Canadian feature-length movie.	[35]
	In the Bishop's Carriage	Edwin S. Porter, J. Searle Dawley	Mary Pickford		[36]
	Lady Babbie	Oscar A. C. Lund	Barbara Tennant, Oscar A. C. Lund	This three-reel featurette was filmed at Eclair American's studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and on location at Lake George, New York.
	Macbeth	Arthur Bourchier	Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh	The International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House may have a print.	[37]
	Maria Marten, or the Mystery of the Red Barn	Maurice Elvey	Nessie Blackford, Maurice Elvey	On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list.	[38]
	A promotional Kinemacolor film of The New Henrietta		Douglas Fairbanks	The New Henrietta was a then-current stage adaptation of the very successful 19th century play The Henrietta which had starred William Henry Crane. The footage was not of the play, but instead depicted the cast relaxing "in their social hours." It was the first screen appearance of future movie star Douglas Fairbanks.	[39]
	Red Margaret, Moonshiner	Allan Dwan	Pauline Bush, Murdock MacQuarrie	A two-reel short.	[40]
	The Restless Spirit	Allan Dwan	J. Warren Kerrigan, Pauline Bush		[41]
	The Sea Urchin	Edwin August	Jeanie Macpherson, Lon Chaney		[42]
	Shon the Piper	Otis Turner	Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph Singleton, Lon Chaney		[43]
	The Trap	Edwin August	Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney	A one-reel short.	[44]
	The Werewolf	Henry MacRae	Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp	The first werewolf film; it was destroyed in a Universal fire in 1924 on the East Coast.	[45][46]
1914	The Birth of the Telephone	Allen Ramsey?	Thomas A. Watson as himself	Watson was the person who received the first telephone call, from Alexander Graham Bell. The Kinetophone sound cylinder remains.	[47]
	A Celebrated Case	George Melford?	Alice Joyce, Guy Coombs, Marguerite Courtot		[48]
	The Crucible	Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford	Marguerite Clark	Clark's second feature, based on the play by Mark Lee Luther. Re-released in 1919.	[49]
	Damaged Goods	Thomas Ricketts	Richard Bennett	Bennett starred in the 1913 Broadway play Damaged Goods with Wilton Lackaye.	[50]
	Darktown Jubilee	Bert Williams (likely)	Bert Williams	An "all-Negro" film starring comedian Williams, the lone black star of the Ziegfeld Follies and America's top recording artist. The distributor, Biograph, pulled the film from circulation after white audiences responded poorly to Williams' wily, independent characterization.	[51]
	The Escape	D. W. Griffith	Donald Crisp	A rare silent feature on the subject of venereal disease, begun by Griffith as his first Reliance-Majestic film, but released nearly last.	[52]
	Fighting Death	Herbert Blaché	Rodman Law	A thrill film starring early motion picture stuntman Rodman Law. Filmed in New York and New Jersey.
	Hearts Adrift	Edwin Stanton Porter	Mary Pickford	A film similar in theme to Henry De Vere Stacpoole's The Blue Lagoon.	[53]
	Her Friend the Bandit	Charlie Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand	The only lost film starring Chaplin. Rumors that it had been found in Argentina proved to be untrue.	[54]
	The Higher Law	Charles Giblyn	Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush		[55]
	The Hopes of Blind Alley	Allan Dwan	Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, George Cooper		[56]
	In the Clutches of the Gang	George Nichols, Mack Sennett	Fatty Arbuckle		[57]
	The Jungle	George Irving, John H. Pratt	George Nash, Gail Kane	The only film version to date of Upton Sinclair's book of the same name.	[58]
	The Life of General Villa	Christy Cabanne	Pancho Villa	A film about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, starring Villa as himself.	[59]
	The Man Who Disappeared	Charles Brabin	Marc McDermott, Herbert Yost	A ten-part serial.	[60]
	The Million Dollar Mystery	Howell Hansel		A serial in 23 parts.	[61]
	A Night of Thrills	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush		[62]
	The Old Cobbler	Murdock MacQuarrie	Murdock MacQuarrie, Richard Rosson, Agnes Vernon	This two-reel short was MacQuarrie's directorial debut.	[63]
	The Siege and Fall of the Alamo	Ray Myers		Four production stills and a review are held at the Library of Congress.	[64]
	Sperduti nel buio	Nino Martoglio	Giovanni Grasso, Virginia Balistrieri	The only known copy of this movie was stolen in Rome by German soldiers during the Second World War, and then presumably lost. No other copy has been found since then.	[65]
	A Study in Scarlet	George Pearson	James Bragington	The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story, it is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing films.	[66][67][68]
	Such a Little Queen	Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford	Mary Pickford	Based on a play by Channing Pollock.	[69]
	The Trey o' Hearts	Wilfred Lucas, Henry MacRae	Cleo Madison, George Larkin	A serial with 15 episodes.	[70]

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