During World War I, Herr Dresser, a German-American professor from West Hoboken, New Jersey, invents a “mustache fixer,” which stiffens the whiskers, making the wearer look very fierce. Much to the consternation of Dresser’s daughter Elsie, a patriotic American, Kaiser…
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can’t get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend…
Little Kate and Janie O’Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O’Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield. Having been locked accidentally into O’Dowd’s munitions plant one evening, the children catch…
A film produced and distributed by the US Army Signal Corps during World War I to inform and “educate” the US population about the reasons for fighting the war. Featured are scenes with Gen. John Pershing, commander of US forces…
Documentary (part of the Following the Flag to France series) on the arrival in France of the first half-million American troops in the First World War, and their progress.
Neysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather, Adolph Schmidt, loves America, although she believes herself to be German-born. Unknown to Neysa, when she was three years old, her father and mother, both American-born, were killed in Germany…
U.S. Secret Service agent Truxton Darnley attires himself as a sailor and boards a schooner owned by arms smuggler Gus Olsen, who is in the employ of German spy Von Linterman to smuggle arms to German raiders in the South…
Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans,…
A George Irving film directed by , released in 1918.
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