111 years ago:
The Old Actor (US)
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives hi...
1912-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/143770
#TheOldActor #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicFilm

113 years ago:
The Unchanging Sea (US)
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of tim...
1910-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/189584
#TheUnchangingSea #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicMovies

111 years ago:
The Lesser Evil (US)
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
1912-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193855
#TheLesserEvil #DWGriffith #MaeMarsh #AlfredPaget #PreCode #Movies

109 years ago:
Brute Force (US)
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets h...
1914-04-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174041
#BruteForce #DWGriffith #AlfredPaget #HarryCarey #PreCode #Film

114 years ago:
Confidence (US)
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her.
1909-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/270133
#Confidence #DWGriffith #PreCode #Film

111 years ago:
The Female of the Species (US)
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 companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
1912-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/127110
#TheFemaleoftheSpecies #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #PreCode #Movies

102 years ago:
Dream Street (US)
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
1921-04-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/175365
#DreamStreet #DWGriffith #RoseSmith #WomenInFilm #PreCode #Movies

102 years ago:
Dream Street (US)
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
1921-04-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/175365
#DreamStreet #DWGriffith #RoseSmith #WomenInFilm #PreCode #Film

113 years ago:
As It Is in Life (US)
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
1910-04-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/189998
#AsItIsinLife #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #PreCode #Film

114 years ago:
A Drunkard's Reformation (US)
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.
1909-03-31
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/258830
#ADrunkardsReformation #DWGriffith #PreCode #ClassicFilm

111 years ago:
The Girl and Her Trust (US)
A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.
1912-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/127111
#TheGirlandHerTrust #DWGriffith #PreCode #Film

104 years ago:
The Girl Who Stayed at Home (US)
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbr...
1919-03-23
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/332159
#TheGirlWhoStayedatHome #DWGriffith #PreCode #Film

112 years ago:
The Lonedale Operator (US)
A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.
1911-03-23
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/130450
#TheLonedaleOperator #DWGriffith #PreCode #ClassicMovies

103 years ago:
The Idol Dancer (US)
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
1920-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/357212
#TheIdolDancer #DWGriffith #PreCode #Movies

113 years ago:
Faithful (US)
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and buys him a new suit of clothes. The naively innocent Faithful reads to...
1910-03-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/194002
#Faithful #DWGriffith #PreCode #Movies

105 years ago:
Hearts of the World (US)
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake ...
1918-03-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174924
#HeartsoftheWorld #DWGriffith #LillianGish #RoseSmith #PreCode #Movies

109 years ago:
Judith of Bethulia (US)
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.
1914-03-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98078
#JudithofBethulia #DWGriffith #LillianGish #HarryCarey #PreCode #Movies

111 years ago:
The Sunbeam (US)
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
1912-02-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193885
#TheSunbeam #DWGriffith #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

114 years ago:
At the Altar (US)
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her suitors was Grigo, a coarse Sicilian, wh...
1909-02-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/312438
#AttheAltar #DWGriffith #PreCode #ClassicFilm #MickeyMouse #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

114 years ago:
The Golden Louis
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.
1909-02-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/139298
#TheGoldenLouis #DWGriffith #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film