Sidney Olcott Movies

While crossing the Atlantic, Jim White, an American tourist, is attracted by a charming young widow. He succeeds in making the lady's acquaintance...

Mary Randall, who has just lost her job, is taking care of her widowed mother. Mary learns that her late uncle has left her part of his estate. She...

A gamekeeper's daughter is shot while warning a poacher.

A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, with whom he falls in love. The Spy enters into the...

A young couple’s love is forbidden by the girl’s father. He forces her to write a farewell letter. Three years later, the Civil War...

The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the aid of her boyfriend, to deliver a message to the...

A story of love triangle, between Nell, Big Jim and Tom.

Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman meets Henry, the son of a Wall Street Broker, her father forbids their relationship, Kathleen defies her...

The story of a customs officer who pursues a trafficker between continents

Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and...

The story of the Emerald Isle years ago. Showing the struggle against poverty, evictions by hard-hearted landlords, hill fighting and the final...

Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs...

A nurse falls for her patient, a young man recently injured in a car accident.

A short Western. Ivi, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief, has three suitors. A competition will decide who gets to marry her. The winner is...

During the Civil War, a woman helps her injured husband by delivering an important message to his general.

Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near...

Silent Documentary on traditional Irish Dancing