Sidney Olcott Movies

The Kerry Gow is a 1912 short

Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted. Young American woman, well...

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...

Mary Randall, who has just lost her job, is taking care of her widowed mother. Mary learns that her late uncle has left her part of his estate. She...

Captain Jasper, a Union officer, is sent on a secret service mission to the Confederate headquarters. Safe through the lines Captain Jasper,...

A short Western. Ivi, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief, has three suitors. A competition will decide who gets to marry her. The winner is...

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...

A group of English Soldiers take the Home of the Fitzgeralds from its rightful owners, and force the daughter Peggy to stay and entertain them. A...

An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being...

Two American ladies touring through Germany happen on this little Spreewald girl and offer her a job in America.

The story of the Emerald Isle years ago. Showing the struggle against poverty, evictions by hard-hearted landlords, hill fighting and the final...

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

Dust of the Desert is a 1912 short film

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...

The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the aid of her boyfriend, to deliver a message to the...

A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.