Sidney Olcott Movies

  • 1905
    2 A.M. in the Subway

    2 A.M. in the Subway

    2 A.M. in the Subway

    4.21905HD

    A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

    2 A.M. in the Subway
  • 1910
    The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

    The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

    The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

    5.51910HD

    The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of...

    The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
  • 1910
    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

    01910HD

    Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other intentions as well. He tried to seduce Anastasia....

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged
  • 1911
    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

    6.51911HD

    A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he...

    The Colleen Bawn
  • 1927
    The Claw

    The Claw

    The Claw

    01927HD

    Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where...

    The Claw
  • 1925
    The Best People

    The Best People

    The Best People

    01925HD

    Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...

    The Best People
  • 1912
    From the Manger to the Cross

    From the Manger to the Cross

    From the Manger to the Cross

    5.0631912HD

    The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

    From the Manger to the Cross
  • 1909
    A Slave to Drink

    A Slave to Drink

    A Slave to Drink

    01909HD

    Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws...

    A Slave to Drink
  • 1911
    The Fiddler’s Requiem

    The Fiddler’s Requiem

    The Fiddler’s Requiem

    01911HD

    The old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the past unfolds itself he sees his sweetheart,...

    The Fiddler’s Requiem
  • 1915
    The Moth and the Flame

    The Moth and the Flame

    The Moth and the Flame

    01915HD

    A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.

    The Moth and the Flame
  • 1912
    Tragedy of the Desert

    Tragedy of the Desert

    Tragedy of the Desert

    01912HD

    An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being...

    Tragedy of the Desert
  • 1922
    Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

    6.4171922HD

    Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart....

    Timothy's Quest
  • 1921
    The Right Way

    The Right Way

    The Right Way

    01921HD

    Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up...

    The Right Way
  • 1924
    The Humming Bird

    The Humming Bird

    The Humming Bird

    61924HD

    A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.

    The Humming Bird
  • 1915
    All for Old Ireland

    All for Old Ireland

    All for Old Ireland

    01915HD

    Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has...

    All for Old Ireland
  • 1925
    Not So Long Ago

    Not So Long Ago

    Not So Long Ago

    01925HD

    Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she...

    Not So Long Ago
  • 1919
    Marriage for Convenience

    Marriage for Convenience

    Marriage for Convenience

    01919HD

    Barbara Rand is blinded when she leaps through a window to escape an assailant. Her sister, Natalie, reluctantly abandons her fiancé, Ned...

    Marriage for Convenience
  • 1916
    The Innocent Lie

    The Innocent Lie

    The Innocent Lie

    01916HD

    Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named...

    The Innocent Lie
  • 1910
    The Stepmother

    The Stepmother

    The Stepmother

    01910HD

    The Stepmother
  • 1910
    The Little Spreewald Maiden

    The Little Spreewald Maiden

    The Little Spreewald Maiden

    01910HD

    Two American ladies touring through Germany happen on this little Spreewald girl and offer her a job in America.

    The Little Spreewald Maiden