Movies · 1918
Shadows of War, Lights of the Screen
As the First World War reached its dramatic conclusion, cinema provided both escape and reflection for war-weary audiences. Filmmakers pushed the medium's artistic boundaries through landmark animations, grand war propaganda, and unforgettable comedic masterpieces.
- USA • Action • Dir. Scott Sidney
Tarzan of the Apes
Elmo Lincoln swings onto the silver screen as Edgar Rice Burroughs' iconic jungle hero in cinema's very first feature-length Tarzan adaptation.
- USA • Comedy/War • Dir. Charlie Chaplin
Shoulder Arms
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp brings lighthearted slapstick to the Western Front trenches in one of the year's biggest box-office comedy hits.
- USA • Drama • Dir. Marshall Neilan
Stella Maris
Mary Pickford delivers a stunning dual performance as both a paralyzed wealthy aristocrat and an abused, misshapen orphan girl.
- USA • War Drama • Dir. D.W. Griffith
Hearts of the World
Filmed near actual European battlefields, D.W. Griffith's epic war drama stars Lillian Gish as a woman surviving under German occupation.
- Sweden • Drama • Dir. Victor Sjöström
The Outlaw and His Wife
Victor Sjöström directs and stars in a visually breathtaking Swedish masterwork about two lovers fleeing society into the brutal wilderness.
- USA • Animation • Winsor McCay
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Winsor McCay spent nearly two years hand-drawing thousands of frames to recreate the tragic 1915 maritime disaster in pioneering animated detail.
- USA • Comedy • Mabel Normand
Mickey
Mabel Normand shines as an uninhibited tomboy from the mountains who wreaks havoc on high society in this smash hit silent comedy.
- Germany • Comedy • Dir. E. Lubitsch
I Don't Want to Be a Man
Ernst Lubitsch directs Ossi Oswalda in a witty gender-bending comedy about a rebellious young woman who disguises herself as a man to gain freedom.
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