Beau Ideal

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she’ll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he’s hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary’s signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer’s…

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.

Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an…

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1911.

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on…

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors…

Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents’ house. George leads the search party, but doesn’t reveal his brother’s hiding…

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.