The best movies 1912

A silent comedy in which a sick young boy gets healthy after a regime of hard work, and does not complain that the housekeeper makes him work so hard.

A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.

The devil performs his magical powers.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a...

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...

Italian slapstick actor Robinet riding a bicycle.

Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is...

A short film about the friendship between a little girl and a stray dog.

With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of...

Billie is the "little mother" of the family and cares for the two smaller children. Her father has fallen under the spell of drink. Billie has become...

A country girl is persuaded to elope with the minister's nephew but she discovers that he is worthless. After he is killed in a brawl, her former...

Tim spends his days running with a railroad gang which frustrates his struggling parents. When his father falls ill Tim reluctantly gets a job...

A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.

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...

A beautiful but eccentric countess amuses herself by subjecting her numerous suitors to silly tests. Most men turn into frenzied dogs in the company...

Short melodrama about a young woman who is executed because she shot at an army patrol. Her fiance turns out to be the leader of this army unit, but...

The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her...

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

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

A trip to Kabilye.

A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.

A trip to Mallorca.

A house filled with spirits.

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

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

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.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

French silent short from 1912

Pascual Orozco's revolutionary struggle in northern Mexico.

First Puerto Rican non-documentary film.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

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