List of lost silent films (1915–1919)

This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1915 to 1919.

• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1918
• 1919

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1915	Anna Karenina	J. Gordon Edwards	Betty Nansen, Edward José	The first American adaptation of the novel	[1]
	Bella Donna	Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick		[2]
	The Black Box	Otis Turner	Herbert Rawlinson	A 15-chapter serial	[3]
	By the Shortest of Heads	Bert Haldane	George Formby	Last known copy destroyed in 1940	[4]
	Carmen	Raoul Walsh	Theda Bara, Einar Linden		[5]
	Destruction	Will S. Davis	Theda Bara		[6]
	The Devil's Daughter	Frank Powell	Theda Bara	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	Jacques Jaccard, William Desmond Taylor	Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, William Russell	A 30-chapter adventure serial	[9]
	Esmeralda	James Kirkwood	Mary Pickford		[10]
	The Eternal City	Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick	One of the first American productions filmed in Rome	[11]
	The Galley Slave	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Stuart Holmes		[12]
	A Girl of Yesterday	Allan Dwan	Mary Pickford, Frances Marion, Glenn L. Martin		[13][14]
	The Goose Girl	Frederick A. Thomson	Marguerite Clark		[15]
	Graft	George Lessey, Richard Stanton	Harry Carey	A serial of 20 chapters	[16]
	His Lordship's Dilemma		W. C. Fields	Possibly found in a Belgian film archive	[17]
	Inspiration	George Foster Platt	Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran		[18]
	Jim the Penman	Edwin S. Porter	John B. Mason, Harold Lockwood		[19]
	The Kreutzer Sonata	Herbert Brenon	Nance O'Neil, Theda Bara, William H. Shay		[20]
	The Last Night of the Barbary Coast	Hal Mohr, Sol Lesser		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	Joseph W. Smiley	Percy Standing	The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein	[22]
	Neal of the Navy	William Bertram, W. M. Harvey	William Courtleigh, Jr. Lillian Lorraine	A 14-chapter serial	[23]
	The New Exploits of Elaine	Louis J. Gasnier, Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton	Pearl White, Creighton Hale	A 10-chapter serial	[24]
	The Pine's Revenge	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney Cleo Madison		[25]
	The Pretty Sister of Jose	Allan Dwan	Marguerite Clark, Jack Pickford, Rupert Julian	Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan	[26]
	Quits	Joseph de Grasse	Arthur Shirley, Lon Chaney	A one-reel short	[27]
	The Romance of Elaine	George B. Seitz	Pearl White	A 12-chapter serial	[28]
	Rupert of Hentzau	George Loane Tucker	Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Gerald Ames		[29]
	Sin	Herbert Brenon	Theda Bara, William E. Shay		[30]
	Sold	Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick		[31]
	The Soul of Broadway	Herbert Brenon	Valeska Suratt	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	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush		[33]
	Steady Company	Joe De Grasse	Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush	A one-reel short	[34]
	Temptation	Cecil B. DeMille	Geraldine Farrar, Theodore Roberts, Pedro de Cordoba		[35]
	The Threads of Fate	Joe De Grasse	Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan, Lon Chaney		[36]
	The Two Orphans	Herbert Brenon	Theda Bara	Later remade by D. W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish	[37]
	Under the Crescent	Burton L. King	Ola Humphrey	A six-chapter serial	[38]
	The Valley of Lost Hope	Romaine Fielding	Romaine Fielding, Mildred Gregory, Peter Lang	Western involving a crashing locomotive	[39]
	The Wild Goose Chase	Cecil B. DeMille	Ina Claire		[40]
	Zaza	Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick		[41]
1916	Acquitted	Paul Powell	Wilfred Lucas, Mary Alden, Bessie Love		[42]
	The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring	Francis Ford, Jacques Jaccard	Grace Cunard, Francis Ford	A 15-chapter serial	[43]
	The Apostle of Vengeance	William S. Hart	William S. Hart	An early Western.	[44]
	Audrey	Robert G. Vignola	Pauline Frederick		[45]
	The Black Butterfly	Burton L. King	Olga Petrova, Mahlon Hamilton, Morgan Jones	Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire
	Casey of the Coast Guard	William Nigh	George O'Hara, Helen Ferguson	A ten-part serial	[46]
	A Daughter of the Gods	Herbert Brenon	Annette Kellerman	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	Cecil B. DeMille	Mae Murray, Theodore Roberts	One of the top-grossing films of 1916	[48]
	The Eternal Sapho	Bertram Bracken	Theda Bara		[49]
	The Fall of a Nation	Thomas Dixon, Jr.	Lorraine Huling, Percy Standing	The first sequel (of The Birth of a Nation)	[50][51]
	The Flying Torpedo	John B. O'Brien, Christy Cabanne	John Emerson, Bessie Love		[52]
	Gloria's Romance	Walter Edwin, Colin Campbell	Billie Burke, Henry Kolker, David Powell		[53]
	Gold and the Woman	James Vincent	Theda Bara, Alma Hanlon		[54]
	The Great Problem	Rex Ingram	Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams		[55]
	He Got His Uncle's Goat	American Bioscope Company	Robert Bolder, Paula Reinbold	This was part of a series of comedy short-films based on the comic series "The Outbursts of Everett True". This film was originally shown at two theaters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Elite and Lyric. The last documented showing was at the Y.M.C.A in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1928.	[56]
	The Heiress at Coffee Dan's	Edward Dillon	Bessie Love		[57]
	Hell-to-Pay Austin	Paul Powell	Wilfred Lucas, Bessie Love, Eugene Pallette, Mary Alden		[58]
	Her Double Life	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Franklyn Hanna		[59]
	His Losing Game	American Bioscope Company	Robert Bolder, Paula Reinbold	This was a comedy short-film based on the comic series "The Outbursts of Everett True". This was possibly an alternate title for the extant film "Everett True Breaks into the Movies", as different papers referred to one title or the other as the character's debut. This film was originally shown at two theaters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Elite and Lyric.	[56]
	Keechaka Vadham	R. Nataraja Mudaliar	Jeevarathnam, R. Nataraja Mudaliar, Raja Mudaliar	First silent film produced in South India	[60]
	Lass of the Lumberlands	Paul Hurst, J. P. McGowan	Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, Thomas G. Lingham	A 15-part serial	[61]
	Liberty	Jacques Jaccard, Henry MacRae	Marie Walcamp, Jack Holt	A 20-chapter Western serial	[62]
	Life's Whirlpool	Barry O'Neal	Holbrook Blinn, Fania Marinoff		[63]
	Milestones	Thomas Bentley	Isobel Elsom	On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list	[64]
	Das Phantom der Oper	Ernst Matray	Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen		[65]
	The Pioneers	Franklyn Barrett	Winter Hall	An Australian production	[66]
	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	[67][68]
	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.	[69]
	Romeo and Juliet	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard		[70]
	The Scarlet Runner	William P. S. Earle, Wally Van	Earle Williams, Marguerite Blake	A 12-chapter serial	[71]
	Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky	Edward Sloman	William Russell, Rhea Mitchell	A four-chapter serial; the sequel to the 30-chapter serial The Diamond from the Sky	[72]
	The Serpent	Raoul Walsh	Theda Bara	One of Theda Bara's many lost films	[73]
	She	Will Barker, Horace Lisle Lucoque	Alice Delysia, Henry Victor, Sydney Bland		[74]
	A Sister of Six	Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin	Bessie Love		[75]
	Stranded	Lloyd Ingraham	DeWolf Hopper		[76]
	Their First Offense	American Bioscope Company	Robert Bolder, Paula Reinbold	This was the second in a series of comedy short-films based on the comic series "The Outbursts of Everett True". This film was originally shown at two theaters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Elite and Lyric.	[56]
	Under Two Flags	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes		[77]
	The Valley of Fear	Alexander Butler	Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell, Booth Conway		[78]
	The Vixen	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes		[79]
	The Witch	Frank Powell	Nance O'Neil, Alfred Hickman	Adaptation of the 1903 play La Sorcière (The Sorceress) by French dramatist Victorien Sardou	[80][81]
	The World's Great Snare	Joseph Kaufman	Pauline Frederick, Irving Cummings		[82]
1917	Alimony	Emmett J. Flynn	Lois Wilson, George Fisher	Screen debut (uncredited) of Rudolph Valentino	[83]
	El Apóstol	Quirino Cristiani		Argentine production believed to be the world's first animated feature film	[84]
	Australia's Peril	Franklyn Barrett	Roland Conway, Maie Baird		[85]
	Birth Control	Margaret Sanger	Margaret Sanger	Documentary film produced by and starring the birth control activist Margaret Sanger was banned.	[86]
	Brcko in Zagreb (Brcko u Zagrebu)	Arsen Maas	Arnošt Grund, Stjepan Bojničić	First Croatian feature film[87] Only some images remain.
	Camille	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara	A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabeled. The film remains lost.	[88]
	Cheerful Givers	Paul Powell	Bessie Love, Kenneth Harlan
	Cheyenne's Pal	John Ford	Harry Carey		[89]
	A Country Hero	Roscoe Arbuckle	Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton		[90]
	The Darling of Paris	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara Glen White		[91]
	The Deemster	Howell Hansel	Derwent Hall Caine, Marian Swayne		[92]
	Double Crossed	Robert G. Vignola	Pauline Frederick		[93]
	Der Golem und die Tänzerin	Paul Wegener		First sequel to a horror film	[94]
	The Gray Ghost	Stuart Paton	Harry Carter, Priscilla Dean	A 16-part serial	[95]
	Great Expectations	Robert G. Vignola	Louise Huff	The first film adaptation of the 1861 novel	[96]
	Heart and Soul	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara		[97]
	Her Better Self	Robert G. Vignola	Pauline Frederick		[98]
	Her Greatest Love	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Walter Law		[99]
	The Hidden Hand	James Vincent	Doris Kenyon, Sheldon Lewis	A 15-chapter serial	[100]
	Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki	Ōten Shimokawa		First anime produced and released in Japan
	Jim Bludso	Tod Browning, Wilfred Lucas	Wilfred Lucas, Olga Grey	Browning's directorial debut	[101]
	Life's Whirlpool	Lionel Barrymore	Ethel Barrymore	Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929 and the only time he directed his sister in a film	[63]
	Magda	Emile Chautard	Clara Kimball Young, Valda Valkyrien		[102]
	A Marked Man	John Ford	Harry Carey		[103]
	The Monk and the Woman	Franklyn Barrett	Maud Fane, Percy Marmont, Harry Plimmer	An Australian production	[104]
	The Mystery Ship	Harry Harvey, Henry MacRae, Francis Ford	Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber	An 18-chapter serial	[105]
	National Red Cross Pageant	Christy Cabanne	An all-star cast, including Ethel Barrymore, Lionel and John Barrymore		[106]
	Nina, the Flower Girl	Lloyd Ingraham	Bessie Love
	A Night in New Arabia	Thomas R. Mills	Frank Glendon
	Polly Ann	Charles Miller	Bessie Love
	Red Saunders Plays Cupid	John Ford	Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey	A short	[107]
	The Rose of Blood	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Genevieve Blinn, Charles Clary		[108]
	The Scrapper	John Ford	John Ford	A Western short	[109]
	The Silent Lie	Raoul Walsh	Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Charles Clary		[110]
	The Siren	Roland West	Valeska Suratt, Isabel Rea, Cesare Gravina, Armand Kalisz	A Western	[111]
	Sleeping Fires	Hugh Ford	Pauline Frederick		[112]
	Somewhere in Georgia	George Ridgwel	Ty Cobb, Elsie MacLeod	A movie featuring baseball legend Ty Cobb playing a fictionalized version of himself	[113]
	The Soul Herder	John Ford	Harry Carey, Claire Du Brey		[114]
	Sowers and Reapers	George D. Baker	Emmy Wehlen, Frank Currier, Harry Davenport		[115]
	The Voice on the Wire	Stuart Paton	Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber	A 15-chapter serial	[116]
	Wee Lady Betty	Charles Miller	Bessie Love, Frank Borzage, Charles K. French		[117]
1918	Alraune	Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz	Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál	A Hungarian science-fiction horror film	[118]
	Arizona	Albert Parker	Douglas Fairbanks		[119][120]
	Bees in His Bonnet	Gilbert Pratt	Harold Lloyd	A comedy short	[121]
	Bound in Morocco	Allan Dwan	Douglas Fairbanks		[119][122]
	The Dawn of Understanding	David Smith	Bessie Love		[123]
	Five Thousand an Hour	Ralph Ince	Hale Hamilton, Lucille Lee Stewart, Douglas Gilbert		[124]
	The Forbidden Path	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Hugh Thompson		[125]
	A Gentleman's Agreement	David Smith	Gayne Whitman, Nell Shipman
	The Glorious Adventure	Hobart Henley	Mae Marsh, Wyndham Standing, Alec B. Francis, Mammy Lou, Mabel Ballin	Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire
	The Great Love	D. W. Griffith	Lillian Gish	This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle.	[126]
	The Greatest Thing in Life	D. W. Griffith	Lillian Gish		[127]
	Headin' South	Allan Dwan	Douglas Fairbanks		[119][122]
	The Hiding of Black Bill	David Smith	Walter Rogers, Chet Ryan
	How Could You, Caroline?	Frederick A. Thomson	Bessie Love, James W. Morrison, Dudley Hawley		[128]
	Hit Him Again	Gilbert Pratt	Harold Lloyd	A one-reel short	[129]
	How Could You, Jean?	William Desmond Taylor	Mary Pickford		[130]
	Huns Within Our Gates		Derwent Hall Caine	Early World War I propaganda film. Also known as The Commercial Pirates and The Hearts of Men	[131]
	The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin	Rupert Julian	Rupert Julian	Early World War I propaganda film	[132]
	Kicking the Germ Out of Germany	Alfred J. Goulding	Harold Lloyd		[133]
	The Lamb	Harold Lloyd, Gilbert Pratt	Harold Lloyd	A short, one-reel comedy	[134]
	The Lion's Claws	Harry Harvey, Jacques Jaccard	Marie Walcamp, Ray Hanford	An 18-episode serial	[135]
	A Little Sister of Everybody	Robert Thornby	Bessie Love, George Fisher		[136]
	On the Quiet	Chester Withey	John Barrymore		[137]
	Our Mrs. McChesney	Ralph Ince	Ethel Barrymore		[138]
	The Phantom Riders	John Ford	Harry Carey		[139]
	The Purple Dress	Martin Justice	Agnes Ayres, Adele DeGarde
	The Romance of Tarzan	Scott Sidney	Elmo Lincoln	The second Tarzan film produced	[140]
	The Savage Woman	Edmund Mortimer	Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills		[141]
	Say! Young Fellow	Joseph Henabery	Douglas Fairbanks		[119]
	Sic 'Em, Towser		Harold Lloyd		[142]
	The Song of the Soul	Tom Terriss	Alice Joyce
	The Soul of Buddha	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Victor Kennard	A rumored clip of the film is in the documentary Theda Bara et William Fox though this isn't confirmed yet.	[143]
	A Successful Adventure	Harry L. Franklin	May Allison, Harry Hilliard
	That Devil, Bateese	William Wolbert	Lon Chaney	Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal	[144]
	Thieves' Gold	John Ford	Harry Carey		[145]
	Three Mounted Men	John Ford	Harry Carey		[146]
	Under the Yoke	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye		[147]
	We Can't Have Everything	Cecil B. DeMille	Kathlyn Williams, Elliott Dexter		[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	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Josef Swickard		[150]
	Wild Women	John Ford	Harry Carey		[151]
	The Woman in the Web	Paul Hurst, David Smith	Hedda Nova	A 15-chapter serial	[152]
	A Woman's Fool	John Ford	Harry Carey		[153]
1919	Ace of the Saddle	John Ford	Harry Carey		[154]
	The Adventures of Ruth	George Marshall	Ruth Roland, Herbert Heyes	A 15-chapter serial	[155]
	Anne of Green Gables	William Desmond Taylor	Mary Miles Minter		[156]
	The Avalanche	George Fitzmaurice	Elsie Ferguson		[157]
	Bare Fists	John Ford	Harry Carey		[158]
	The Beetle	Alexander Butler	Fred Morgan, Maudie Dunham		[159]
	The Big Little Person	Robert Z. Leonard	Mae Murray, Rudolph Valentino		[160]
	The Black Secret	George B. Seitz	Pearl White, Walter McGrail	A 15-chapter serial	[161]
	Bonds of Love	Reginald Barker	Pauline Frederick		[162]
	The Cambric Mask	Tom Terriss	Maurice Costello, Alice Joyce
	Carolyn of the Corners	Robert Thornby	Bessie Love, Charles Edler, Charlotte Mineau		[163]
	Count the Votes	Hal Roach	Harold Lloyd		[164]
	Dalagang Bukid	José Nepomuceno	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	Walter West	Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome, Cameron Carr		[166]
	The Divorcee	Herbert Blaché	Ethel Barrymore, E. J. Ratcliffe, Holmes Herbert	Barrymore's last silent film	[167]
	Elmo the Mighty	Henry MacRae	Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard	An 18-chapter serial	[168]
	The Enchanted Barn	David Smith	Bessie Love, J. Frank Glendon		[169]
	A Fight for Love	John Ford	Harry Carey, John Big Tree		[170]
	The Fighting Brothers	John Ford	Pete Morrison	A short Western	[171]
	A Fighting Colleen	David Smith	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	Robert Broadwell, Robert F. Hill	Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves	An 18-chapter serial	[174]
	Halbblut	Fritz Lang	Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Carl Gerard Schröder	Lang's directorial debut	[175]
	The Hawk's Trail	W. S. Van Dyke	King Baggot, Grace Darmond	A 15-chapter serial	[176]
	He Leads, Others Follow	Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach	Harold Lloyd	A one-reel comedy short	[177]
	Here Comes the Bride	John S. Robertson	John Barrymore, Faire Binney		[178]
	Der Herr der Liebe	Fritz Lang	Carl de Vogt	This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role.	[179]
	His Only Father	Hal Roach, Frank Terry	Harold Lloyd	A one-reel short	[180]
	The Homesteader	Oscar Micheaux, Jerry Mills	Charles D. Lucas	First feature length film directed by a Black filmmaker	[181]
	The Isle of Conquest	Edward Jose	Norma Talmadge		[182]
	The Knickerbocker Buckaroo	Albert Parker	Douglas Fairbanks, William A. Wellman		[119][183]
	La Belle Russe	Charles Brabin	Theda Bara, Warburton Gamble
	The Light	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Eugene Ormond, Robert Walker
	The Lion Man	Albert Russell, Jack Wells	Kathleen O'Connor, Jack Perrin	An 18-chapter serial	[184]
	The Little Boss	David Smith	Bessie Love, Wallace MacDonald		[185]
	Marked Men	John Ford	Harry Carey		[186]
	The Midnight Man	James W. Horne	James J. Corbett, Kathleen O'Connor	An 18-chapter serial	[187]
	Nobody Home	Elmer Clifton	Dorothy Gish, Ralph Graves, George Fawcett, Rudolph Valentino		[188]
	One Week of Life	Hobart Henley	Pauline Frederick		[189]
	The Outcasts of Poker Flat	John Ford	Harry Carey		[190]
	Over the Garden Wall	David Smith	Bessie Love		[191]
	The Rajah	Hal Roach	Harold Lloyd	A short	[192]
	The Red Glove	J. P. McGowan	Marie Walcamp, Pat O'Malley	An 18-chapter serial	[193]
	Rider of the Law	John Ford	Harry Carey		[194]
	Riders of Vengeance	John Ford	Harry Carey		[195]
	Roped	John Ford	Harry Carey		[196][197]
	Si, Senor	Alfred J. Goulding	Harold Lloyd	A one-reel short	[198]
	Soft Money	Vincent P. Bryan, Hal Roach	Harold Lloyd		[199]
	The Splendid Romance	Edward José	Enrico Caruso, Ormi Hawley, Crauford Kent	A print may be held by a private collector.	[200]
	Terror of the Range	Stuart Paton	George Larkin, Betty Compson	A seven-episode serial	[201]
	The Test of Honor	John S. Robertson	John Barrymore, Constance Binney	Barrymore's first dramatic role in a feature film	[202]
	The Undercurrent	Wilfrid North	Arthur Guy Empey
	The Unknown Quantity	Thomas R. Mills	Corinne Griffith
	The Wishing Ring Man	David Smith	Bessie Love, J. Frank Glendon		[203]
	A Woman There Was	J. Gordon Edwards	Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe		[204]
	A Yankee Princess	David Smith	Bessie Love		[205]