Sidney Olcott Movies

A young couple’s love is forbidden by the girl’s father. He forces her to write a farewell letter. Three years later, the Civil War...

Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has...

Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near...

This play is enacted during the stormy days when Robert Emmett tried vainly to free Ireland. Con Daly loves Nora Doyle, who lives with her mother in...

Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and...

An American officer disguises himself as an Arab in order to rescue an American woman kidnapped by Arab tribesmen.

Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his arm....

Kathleen leaves behind her sweetheart in Ireland to emigrate to New York, finding a position in a sweet shop, until a strike forces her to seek...

The Kerry Gow is a 1912 short

Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named...

A gamekeeper's daughter is shot while warning a poacher.

Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the...

The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he may wed Peggy O'Malley in a style befitting her...

Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs...

An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.

A true story of ante-Rebellion days.