Silent Films featuring Abraham Lincoln
by history_ferret | created - 28 Jan 2018 | updated - 19 Nov 2022 | PublicSilent films in which was portrayed Abraham Lincoln as a character.
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1. Abraham Lincoln's Clemency (1910)
The incidents pictured in this film are founded on fact and relate to William Scott, a young soldier from the State of Vermont. Scott is on guard after a heavy day's march, and being found ... See full summary »
Director: Theodore Wharton | Star: Leopold Wharton
Votes: 41
2. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1909)
Short, Drama
A re-creation of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the trail of John Wilkes Booth. The film ends with the allegorical representation of Lincoln receiving the reward of virtue.
3. Stirring Days in Old Virginia (1909)
Short, Drama
This picture story is a series of stirring war scenes occurring in 1865, at the homestead of Captain Warren, Confederate officer, near St. Petersburg, Va., at that time headquarters of General Logan.
Director: Otis Turner
4. Scenes from the Battlefield of Gettysburg, the Waterloo of the Confederacy (1908)
Short, War
A re-creation of the 3-day battle of Gettysburg, highlighting Pickett's charge.
5. The Martyred Presidents (1901)
1 min | Short
This film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 199
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin (I) (1903)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Drama
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 534
7. The Blue and the Gray; or, the Days of '61 (1908)
Short, Drama, War
Two West Point cadets, Ned Grey from Virginia and David Stratton from New England, are classmates. One day after Dress Parade Ned introduces his mother and father and sister to David, who ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Star: David Wall
8. The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (1908)
Short, Drama
This thrilling story of the days of '61 and '65 shows a scene in the woods and our hero doing sentry duty. His work has been tiresome, his strength is about given out and he sits down to ... See full summary »
Director: Van Dyke Brooke
Votes: 14
10. The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)
Short, Drama, History
There is not an American living who does not relish the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr President, considered by the majority of writers and men nationally prominent as the... See full summary »
Director: Langdon West | Stars: Frank McGlynn Sr., Nellie Grant, Charles Sutton
Votes: 24
11. The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1908)
Short, Drama, History
Shows his early years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; the Lincoln - Douglas debates; Judge Lincoln refusing a pro-slavery office; granting a pardon to sleeping picket; and his assassination.
12. The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig
Votes: 35
13. His First Commission (1911)
Drama, Short
Because a soldier is rewarded for bravery Lincoln's son "Tad" demands and gets a commission Armed with this he enlists the children. He goes through the grounds and finds a sentry whose ... See full summary »
Stars: Charles Brabin, Yale Boss
14. The Fortunes of War (1911)
Drama, Short
In response to Lincoln's call for troops at the outset of the Civil War, Bill and Jim Clark leave for the front with the consent and blessing of their mother. The brothers take an ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: William Clifford, Enid Markey, Charles Ray
15. The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1911)
13 min | Short, Drama
This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War President Lincoln was very much discouraged ... See full summary »
Directors: J. Stuart Blackton, Laurence Trimble | Stars: Ralph Ince, Maurice Costello, Julia Swayne Gordon, Edith Storey
16. Grant and Lincoln (1911)
Short, Drama
George Wharton leaves his Southern home to fight for the North. While in camp be chastises a fellow officer for insulting a lady and thereby gains his enmity. George's sister has a ... See full summary »
17. One Flag at Last (1911)
Short, Drama
Judge Stark is a most thorough representative of the straight-backed, straight-laced, strongly prejudiced Southern gentleman. The scene opens when he and his daughter, Bettie, are bidding ... See full summary »
Stars: Earle Williams, Rose Tapley, Charles Herman, Hal Wilson
18. Lieutenant Grey of the Confederacy (1911)
Short, Drama, War
Lieut. Grey, C.S.A., is sent to obtain plans of the Federal forts. He meets and is aided by Col. Carter's daughter, Elizabeth, a loyal Confederate. Later he is chased and wounded by a party... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: James Dayton, Alvin Wyckoff, Sydney Ayres, Herbert Rawlinson
19. A Romance of the 60's (1911)
Short, Drama
Walter Rodgers, a northerner, was engaged to marry Cora Fletcher, daughter of a southern colonel. A lawn fete was in full swing at her home when word came of the firing on Fort Sumter. An ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Standing, Frances Gibson, Romaine Fielding
20. The Seventh Son (1912)
Short, Drama
At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Reid | Stars: Ralph Ince, Mary Maurice, James Morrison, Tefft Johnson
Votes: 56
21. The Fall of Blackhawk (1912)
Short, Drama, History
You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham ... See full summary »
Director: William Lee | Stars: Harry Lonsdale, David Fischer, Chester Gould, George Cole
22. The Higher Mercy (1912)
Drama, Short
No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to his little son Tad. Little Tad, playing at the boat landing of the White House lake, falls... See full summary »
Director: William V. Ranous | Stars: Ralph Ince, Julia Swayne Gordon, James Morrison, Rose Tapley
23. On Secret Service (1912)
20 min | Short, Drama
Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, and the signature to his messages is forged and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Robert Edeson, Walter Edwards, Frank Borzage, Nick Cogley
Votes: 23
24. When Lincoln Paid (1913)
Short, Drama
Abraham Lincoln is shown in his youth addressing an audience of villagers on a street corner. A terrific thunderstorm comes up, driving his auditors away, and Lincoln mounts his horse and ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Charles Edler, Jack Conway
Votes: 22
25. When Lincoln Was President (1913)
Short, Drama
Mrs. Scott, a widow, has a son, Ben, and a nephew, Will. Ben enlists for the war and his mother is prostrated by the news. Will tells his aunt that he will enlist and watch over her boy. ... See full summary »
Star: Joel Day
26. Lincoln for the Defense (1913)
Short, Drama
This picture play illustrates an episode in President Lincoln's life prior to his election for Congress. It is historically accurate in every particular. It is the day before his final ... See full summary »
Star: Joel Day
27. The Battle of Bull Run (1913)
28 min | Short, Drama, History
At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: William Clifford, Victoria Forde, Grace Cunard, Ray Myers
Votes: 14
28. With Lee in Virginia (1913)
20 min | Short, Drama, War
The picture opens in 1861. Billy Girard loves Ethel Blair, both Virginians. Ethel's father, a judge, welcomes Billy to his home, and this embitters Horton, a rival. War breaks out and ... See full summary »
Director: William J. Bauman | Stars: Francis Ford, Ann Little, Joe King, Charles K. French
29. The Toll of War (1913)
30 min | Short, Drama, History
Edith Eldridge, daughter of Colonel Eldridge, disguises herself as a boy to enlist with her two brothers in the Confederate array. Her identity is discovered and she is rejected. Federal ... See full synopsis »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, William Clifford, Ethel Grandin
30. The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
48 min | Drama, War
A young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union, while her brother fights for the Confederates, in the pivotal 1863 battle of the U.S. Civil War.
Directors: Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Willard Mack, Charles Edler, Ann Little, Joe King
Votes: 40
31. Song Bird of the North (1913)
Short, Drama, Romance
Haywood, a suitor for the hand of Elida Rumsey, is severely reprimanded by her for not enlisting when President Lincoln calls for volunteers. Being deeply interested in the cause, Elida ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Anita Stewart, Ralph Ince, Wallace Reid, E.K. Lincoln
32. From Rail Splitter to President (1913)
20 min | Drama, Short
Lincoln is first seen as a rail splitter in the country, and even then, he is a peace-maker. His life as a storekeeper and his meeting with Ann Rutledge follow. He proposes to her, and his ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Edgar Keller, Fred Montague
33. Lincoln, the Lover (1914)
10 min | Short, Biography, Romance
Returning from his inauguration, Lincoln, with the sounds of the acclaim of the populace still in his ears, and realizing in a moment of loneliness the emptiness of his life, dreams of Ann ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Ralph Ince, Anita Stewart, E.K. Lincoln, Logan Paul
Votes: 11
34. The Sleeping Sentinel (1914)
Short, Drama
This stirring poem by F. De H. Janvier, tells the story of a brave and overworked young soldier who slept at his post during a critical period in an engagement and was court-martialed and ... See full summary »
Stars: George Steele, Clarence Elmer, Margaret Moore, John Smiley
35. The Heart of Lincoln (1915)
50 min | Drama, History
During the Civil War, a young man joins the Union army. His sweetheart's brother, on the other hand, joins the Confederate forces. During a battle the Confederate is captured and brought to... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, William Quinn, Elmer Morrow
36. The Heart of Maryland (1915)
60 min | Drama, History, War
Maryland Calvert lives in that section of Maryland divided against itself in the question of secession. Her brother Floyd is so strong a Northern sympathizer that he joins the Federal ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Mrs. Leslie Carter, William E. Shay, J. Farrell MacDonald, Matt Snyder
37. The Heart of Maryland (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dolores Costello, Jason Robards Sr., Warner Richmond, Helene Costello
Votes: 26
38. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,336 | Gross: $10.00M
39. The Magistrate's Story (1915)
Short, Drama
War has been declared. The North and South are going to fight. Tom Weldon joins the army of the North and John Sterrett casts his lot with the Confederacy. Both are suitors for the hand of ... See full summary »
Director: Langdon West | Stars: Richard Tucker, Gertrude McCoy, Pat O'Malley, William West
40. The Son of Democracy (1917)
Biography, Drama, History
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Benjamin Chapin, Charles Jackson, Madelyn Clare, John Stafford
41. Myself (1917)
Biography
Third in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, this film explores the young Abe's beginnings as a country lawyer and political figure.
Stars: Benjamin Chapin, Charles Jackson
42. My Mother (1917)
26 min | Short, Biography
First in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, this film explores the life of Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks.
Stars: Benjamin Chapin, Charles Jackson
43. My Father (1917)
26 min | Short, Biography
The second film in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, it deals with the life of Lincoln's father, Tom Lincoln.
Stars: Benjamin Chapin, Charles Jackson
44. Her Country's Call (1917)
Biography, Drama
A mountain girl with an army-hating father, meets a handsome army captain, who teaches her how to love her country.
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mary Miles Minter, George Periolat, Allan Forrest, Henry A. Barrows
45. A Call to Arms (1918)
26 min | Short, Drama
Lincoln's life in the White House at the time Fort Sumter was fired upon is shown, and the many problems he was forced to face at that momentous hour are brought out with great clearness. ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
46. My First Jury (1918)
29 min | Short, Drama
Abraham Lincoln, the boy, defends a funny little black boy accused of stealing a white rooster. After a swift chase, Jim, the black boy, is captured with the fowl under his arm, and he is ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
47. Tender Memories (1918)
29 min | Short, Drama
A soldier lying in an unmarked grave recalls to Lincoln the story of how his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, was buried in the wilderness without a funeral, and Lincoln tells of his efforts to get a minister who finally performs the rites.
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
48. A President's Answer (1918)
25 min | Short, Drama
In the Civil War, Dave Elkin joins up with the rebel forces. He is captured and is taken to Washington and put in a POW camp. There, he kills one of the cruel guards and is sentenced to die... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
49. The Son of Democracy (1918)
Short, Action, Adventure
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
50. Under the Stars (1918)
27 min | Short, Drama
In order to convince a doubtful Kentucky legislature that it should remain loyal to the North and oppose secession, Mr. James tells the Kentucky assembly how Lincoln's grandfather father ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
51. Down the River (1918)
Short, Drama
Abraham Lincoln travels to New Orleans in an unsuccessful attempt to reunite a Negro boy with his mother who was kidnapped in Illinois and sold into slavery.
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
52. Native State (1918)
30 min | Short, Drama
Daniel Boone is one of the characters introduced, and a tribe of Indians take part in the action. The way in which the life of Lincoln was intertwined with the Boone family shows that fact ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin
53. The Slacker's Heart (1917)
Drama, War
Director: Frederick J. Ireland | Stars: Edward Arnold, Bernadine Zuber, Rhea Laughlin, Lillian De Turck
54. Madam Who? (1918)
Drama
Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South during the Civil War, to avenge the deaths of her father and brother. While eavesdropping on a meeting of Northern spies, she is... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Edward Coxen, Howard Hickman, Joseph J. Dowling
55. My Own United States (1918)
80 min | Drama
Philip Nolan III refuses to fight for the cause of democracy. His father, Philip Nolan II, who has failed in his efforts to convince his son of the fallacy of arguments, then lays bare all ... See full summary »
Director: John W. Noble | Stars: Arnold Daly, Charles E. Graham, Duncan McRae, Sidney Bracey
56. The Birth of a Race (1918)
90 min | Drama
After a biblical and historical prologue detailing the evolution of the idea of democracy through the creation of the world, the flood, the crucifixion of Christ, the discovery of America, ... See full summary »
Director: John W. Noble | Stars: Louis Dean, Harry Dumont, Carter B. Harkness, Doris Doscher
Votes: 60
57. Victory and Peace (1918)
War
A nurse saves a captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads a counterattack.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Matheson Lang, Marie Lohr, James Carew, Ellen Terry
58. The Copperhead (1920)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
Director: Charles Maigne | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, William P. Carleton, Francis Joyner, Richard Carlyle
Votes: 32
60. The Highest Law (1921)
60 min | Drama
A Civil War veteran tells two veterans of World War I how he was spared execution through Abraham Lincoln's mercy.
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Ralph Ince, Robert Agnew, Margaret Seddon, Aleen Burr
61. In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)
Western
Director: Edward Laemmle | Stars: Art Acord, George A. Williams, Dorothy Wood, Duke R. Lee
62. Wild Bill Hickok (1923)
70 min | History, Western
After the America Civil War ends, important political and military figures gather in Washington D.C. Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (William Hart) retires to Dodge City where he hangs up his ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley
Votes: 28
63. Wide Open Spaces (1924)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
A satire on the wild and woolly type of western picture. A very straight-shooting rancher, Gabriel Goober, is assailed by bandits. Forced to flee, he becomes sheriff of a nearby town and kills a few hundred of his enemies in open warfare.
Director: George Jeske | Stars: Stan Laurel, Ena Gregory, James Finlayson
Votes: 27
64. Barbara Frietchie (1924)
85 min | Drama, War
Two lovers in a small Maryland town are torn apart by the Civil War: she is loyal to the South while he heads North to join the Federal Army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Florence Vidor, Edmund Lowe, Emmett King, Joseph Bennett
Votes: 64
65. As No Man Has Loved (1925)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Early in the 19th century, Lieutenant Nolan becomes involved in the Burr conspiracy. When Burr is tried for treason, Nolan refuses to reaffirm his allegiance to the United States and ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Edward Hearn, Pauline Starke, Lucy Beaumont, Richard Tucker
66. The Pony Express (1925)
110 min | Drama, Western
Traitorous California Senator tries to use the newly founded Pony Express to further his plans for a California Republic, but Unionist Frisco Jack will try to stop him.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery
Votes: 93 | Gross: $0.27M
67. The Iron Horse (1924)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 2,444 | Gross: $2.06M
68. Hands Up! (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, War
A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain
Votes: 306
69. Court-Martial (1928)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jack Holt, Betty Compson, Pat Harmon, Doris Hill
Votes: 30
70. The Overland Telegraph (1929)
60 min | Western
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who ... See full summary »
Director: John Waters | Stars: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Janis, Frank Rice, Lawford Davidson
71. The Old Man and Jim (1911)
10 min | Short, Drama
The "old man" never had much to say excepting to Jim, and Jim was the wildest boy he had. The old man knew and so did everybody in the town, including the lady's own husband, that Jim loved... See full summary »
Director: Ulysses Davis
72. The Crisis (1916)
100 min | Drama, History, War
Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: George Fawcett, Matt Snyder, Bessie Eyton, Tom Santschi
Votes: 28
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