By Vlad Zakh · May 8, 2026
Wallace Reid brought a dashing, athletic presence to Hollywood silent film and became one of the era’s most popular, tragically short-lived leading men. The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance are the landmark titles, The Golden Chance has a poor woman posing as a socialite to help close a deal, Enoch Arden returns a shipwrecked sailor to find his wife remarried, and Carmen seduces a naive soldier to ruin. The Avenging Conscience rounds out the list.
01 Four interwoven stories across history explore the dangers of intolerance.
Directed by D.W. Griffith · 3h 17m · Rated NR
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02 Raymond Hatton appears as a poor woman poses as a wealthy socialite to help a businessman close an important deal.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 1h 14m · Rated NR
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03 A shipwrecked sailor returns home after years to find his wife has remarried, believing him dead.
Directed by Christy Cabanne · 0h 40m · Rated NR
04 A fiery Spanish factory worker's seductive charm leads a soldier towards jealousy and ruin.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 0h 59m · Rated NR
05 Alma Rubens is in this silent epic where two families' fates are intertwined across the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Directed by D.W. Griffith · 3h 15m · Rated NR
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06 Josephine Crowell is in this silent film about a young man haunted by guilt after murdering his controlling uncle.
Directed by D.W. Griffith · 1h 23m · Rated NR
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