1912 Movies

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Falling Leaves(1912)

12min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.

Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

The Musketeers of Pig Alley(1912)

| 17min | Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller, Alfred Paget, Harry Carey, ...

The Conquest of the Pole(1912)

33min | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" by Jules Verne.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Massacre(1912)

| 30min | Action, War, Western

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Dillon, ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1912)

| 12min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Directed by Lucius J. Henderson - With James Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Marguerite Snow, Harry Benham

How a Mosquito Operates(1912)

6min | Animation, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.

Directed by Winsor McCay

The Cameraman's Revenge(1912)

13min | Animation

3.6/5 (with 41 votes)

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.

Directed by Ladislas Starevich

One Is Business, the Other Crime(1912)

| 15min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Charles West

A Fool and His Money(1912)

| 10min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry and a car with a driver. Back home, Lindy flips for Sam and his newfound wealth, and dumps the rival. Sam throws an engagement party where he indulges in a friendly game of cards with his former rival and another man, who unbeknownst to Sam, is a card shark.

Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

Algie, the Miner(1912)

10min | Comedy, Western

2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché - With Billy Quirk

The New York Hat(1912)

| 16min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Kate Bruce, Charles Hill Mailes, Alfred Paget, Lillian Gish, ...

The Girl and Her Trust(1912)

17min | Crime, Drama, Action, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

Directed by D. W. Griffith

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Man's Genesis(1912)

17min | Adventure, Drama, History, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.

Directed by D. W. Griffith

My Baby(1912)

| 17min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, Frank Powell - With Mary Pickford

A Temporary Truce(1912)

17min | Action, Western

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian man. His son (Robert Harron) vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. The chief, however, knows better and tells him that revenge is useless. Robert Harron disobeys and mobilizes all young warriors for battle. The plot thickens. The prospector and the Mexican, who holds his wife captive, start shooting each other. However, when the Indians attack, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes

From the Manger to the Cross(1912)

| 1h 11min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

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

Directed by Sidney Olcott - With Gene Gauntier, Alice Hollister, Sidney Olcott, Robert G. Vignola, J. P. McGowan, Jack J. Clark, ...

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An Unseen Enemy(1912)

| 17min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Harry Carey, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron, Grace Henderson, ...

Heredity(1912)

| 17min | Drama, Western

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanked from the luxury of her ancestral home in Britain to be raised on New York's Lower East Side. Ten years later, the grown-up Nedda stands accused of the murder of her mother.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Harry Carey, Alfred Paget, Christy Cabanne, George Nichols, Jack Pickford, Kate Bruce, ...

Katchem Kate(1912)

11min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a detective. Mabel goes rushing off to a Detective school run by Fred Ward.

Directed by Mack Sennett

The Cry of the Children(1912)

29min

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.

Directed by George Nichols

The Life and Death of King Richard III(1912)

55min | Drama, History, Adventure

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance.

Directed by André Calmettes, James Keane - With Frederick Warde, Robert Gemp, Albert Gardner, George Moss, Howard Stuart, Violet Stuart, ...

Under Burning Skies(1912)

17min | Western, Drama

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Wilfred Lucas

The Invaders(1912)

41min | Western

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.

Directed by Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince - With Art Acord, Francis Ford, Ann Little, Ethel Grandin, Ray Myers

The Painted Lady(1912)

| 12min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Harry Carey, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, W. E. Lawrence, ...

The God Within(1912)

| 17min | Drama

The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Hill Mailes, Gertrude Bambrick, ...

Saved from the Titanic(1912)

10min | Documentary

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard because her fiance is a sailor and her parents have just been reminded of the dangers of the sea. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy.

Directed by Étienne Arnaud - With Dorothy Gibson, Alec B. Francis, John G. Adolfi, Guy Oliver, Muriel Ostriche

Cleopatra(1912)

| 1h 28min | Drama, History

1.6/5 (with 8 votes)

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.

Directed by Charles L. Gaskill - With Helen Gardner, Harley Knoles, Helene Costello

The Water Nymph(1912)

8min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

Directed by Mack Sennett - With Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Fred Mace, Edward Dillon, Mae Busch, ...

With the Enemy's Help(1912)

10min

A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.

Directed by Wilfred Lucas - With Blanche Sweet, Mary Pickford

The Burglar’s Dilemma(1912)

| 15min | Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the intruder with murder.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Gertrude Bambrick, Harry Carey, Frank Evans, Dorothy Gish, ...

1912 Movies

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Falling Leaves(1912)

The Musketeers of Pig Alley(1912)

The Conquest of the Pole(1912)

The Massacre(1912)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1912)

How a Mosquito Operates(1912)

The Cameraman's Revenge(1912)

One Is Business, the Other Crime(1912)

A Fool and His Money(1912)

Algie, the Miner(1912)

The New York Hat(1912)

The Girl and Her Trust(1912)

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Man's Genesis(1912)

My Baby(1912)

A Temporary Truce(1912)

From the Manger to the Cross(1912)

An Unseen Enemy(1912)

Heredity(1912)

Katchem Kate(1912)

The Cry of the Children(1912)

The Life and Death of King Richard III(1912)

Under Burning Skies(1912)

The Invaders(1912)

The Painted Lady(1912)

The God Within(1912)

Saved from the Titanic(1912)

Cleopatra(1912)

The Water Nymph(1912)

With the Enemy's Help(1912)

The Burglar’s Dilemma(1912)

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