Edwin S. Porter Movies

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into...

A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.

A silent comedy drama film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter

Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to...

A lost film. A man and a woman are shipwrecked on a desert island. It doesn't take long before they fall in love and, figuring that they would never...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king...

A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.

The old lighthouse keeper lives peacefully with his two daughters, who are both engaged to fisherman. One night he receives a message announcing the...

A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...