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- The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies.
- Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, as well as the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, in order to help him change his selfish ways and redeem his soul. An early silent adaptation of the classic story.
- The Battle of Waterloo is a 1913 feature film created by British and Colonial Films to dramatize the eponymous battle ahead of its centenary.
- A squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.
- A man rigs an affair between his wife and a doctor to cause a divorce and marry the doctor's wife.
- An heiress helps a counsel prove her fiancé did not kill a cabby's passenger.
- A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
- A ship's doctor, forced to operate on his beloved's husband, is saved by a hydroplane when the ship explodes.
- A frightened woman stabs a burglar while her husband is ill in bed.
- A tramp dreams a rich man helps him burgle his house.
- The romantic attachment which the humbly born William Shakespeare had for the beautiful and gentle Charlotte Clopton, of Clopton Hall, is authenticated by the letters of many people of the period, and as it is one of the most potent factors in the development of the genius of Shakespeare, it is very appropriate that the film should open with the first meeting of the future playwright and the beautiful young girl. This acquaintance always remained a romantic one, on the part of young Shakespeare, but Charlotte felt the attraction more seriously. Meanwhile, Sir Hugh Clopton, Charlotte's father, who is an ardent Catholic, shelters in his house a man named Carry, who is a traitor to the Queen; he does this at the command of Pope Gregory XIII, not knowing the character of the man he is harboring. Shakespeare, pursuing the apparently gay and thoughtless tenor of his career, but in reality training the great qualities of mind which were afterwards to make him famous, displeases a lawyer in whose employ he has been, and while he is trying to explain this to his mother, a tragic scene takes place, in the assassination of the traitor Parry. Too late. Sir Hugh Clopton learns of Parry's treachery, through Shakespeare's lawyer employer, who informs Sir Thomas Lucy of the plot, and also accuses Sir Hugh of being in it. Sir Hugh's celebration of his daughter's birthday is rudely interrupted by the arrival of soldiers, who are come to arrest him for complicity in the treasonous design. The Queen pardons Sir Hugh, but his lovely daughter falls ill of a mysterious malady, which is wrongly diagnosed as The Plague, but which is a fatal one, nevertheless despite the great danger of infection. Shakespeare bids her a passionate farewell before she dies. Some months later Shakespeare, now beginning to be the great man of his village, champions pretty, shy Anne Hathaway at the Twelfth Night Revels. Their acquaintance ripens, and their courtship is played out in the beautiful environs of Stratford and about the Anne Hathaway cottage. In sharp contrast to the idyllic Anne Hathaway of the courtship, the wedded wife of Shakespeare is undoubtedly the shrew, whose sharp tongue drives her husband to the distraction of the "Lucy Arms." This condition of things, added to the fact that Shakespeare has incurred the displeasure of Sir Thomas Lucy by his poaching exploits, drives the young man to leave home. He decides to try his fortunes in London, so takes leave of Anne and his child and starts away. In London, Shakespeare views the great crowds of richly dressed people with astonishment, but he soon wins friends. The theater, of course, draws him, and outside the historic old Globe Theater he looks upon the scene of his future triumphs. The genius of the young dramatist is soon discovered by the great Lord Southampton, who becomes his generous patron and introduces him to the court of Queen Elizabeth, where he meets Raleigh, Drake, the Earl of Essex, and all the famous political and social figures of the time. The command performance of "Romeo and Juliet" in the Blackfriars Theater which is attended by the Queen and all the Court, marks the beginning of that triumph which was, through the following year, to be the great crescendo of English literature. The final stages of the film show Shakespeare in the glow of middle age. He is dreaming of his past successes, scenes from his great plays visioning themselves before him. The film closes with the fading in and fading out of the bust of Shakespeare, which is in the Parish Church of Stratford-on-Avon.
- A gambler blackmails a Lord's wife upon discovering his mistress is her mother.
- A butler dons his rival's police uniform and causes him trouble.
- A kidnapped groom escapes in time for his wedding.
- A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
- A colonel's son kills his sister's fiancé with a lieutenant's golf club.
- A midshipman's adventures fighting Spanish privateers.
- A disfigured man becomes a circus puppeteer and tries to destroy a waif's love.
- A Lord's daughter elopes with a man who is arrested when he dons a dying highwayman's coat.
- A young girl in Monte Carlo is engaged to a nobleman, but is really in love with someone else. A jewel thief named "The Black Spider" has been robbing the wealthy of Monte Carlo, and as a joke the girl steals her aunt's jewels. Unfortunately, a detective finds out and suspects her of being the real "The Black Spider".
- A 1915 British silent historical film about Florence Nightingale, and her innovations in nursing care during the Crimean War.
- A crook demands his Princess cousin in return for clearing a Prince of a theft charge.
- A clerk steals for a girl's sake and is forgiven on saving the life of the boss's daughter.
- An outlawed Earl forms a robber band and saves a girl from a knight.
- A man robs his remarried wife's house and she shuts him in the safe.
- A general's son, framed by a spy for cardsharping, enlists as a private and saves his father and fiancée from capture.
- A pedlar saves a girl from a cliff mishap.
- Plumbers try to mend a bath whilst householders try to use it.
- A drunkard's wife and family fool him with a tiger skin.
- A disowned girl wins her uncle's fortune by marrying his favourite nephew.
- Father finds a sack of flour and makes a huge pie.
- A district nurse saves a doctor's child, kidnapped by a vengeful coster.
- A rich man stops flirting with a blacksmith's wife after dreaming he is Satan.
- Children's adventures bringing home a roll of linoleum.
- A seasick traveller dreams of pirates and is thrown in the sea.
- One by one, at night, family shortens father's long kilt.