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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
- The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money from him. If Antonio can not repay the debt Shylock is allowed to cut a pound of meat out of Antonio's body. That is the deal.
- The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, 'Prairie Love'.
- A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.
- A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu.
- Melodrama of a boy taken from his family, adopted by a coachman,who grows up to be secretary to the minister of Justice, and to uncover dark plots, spearheaded by a femme fatale, that affected his own life and the lives of others.
- A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- A convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share.
- The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
- A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
- Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- When William McCarthy is found dead, the son with whom he had just quarreled is charged with murder.
- The British Queen rouses the Iceni, but is defeated by the Romans.
- Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.
- Documentary about the fishing trawler, "Isabella Grieg". We follow her from her base in Granton Harbour, in Edinburgh, right up the east coast of Edinburgh, up to the fishing grounds between Shetland and Norway.
- One of the first epic films made in Austria, as in some of the similar Cecil B De Mille entries, a fusion of a biblical story with a modern update.
- A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.
- A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?
- A pacifist enlists and is blinded while his friend weds a shopgirl who was seduced by a German spy.
- Tom Milburn, racing enthusiast experimenting with a new tire process, wants to marry Bess Stanton. However, her head is turned by a young man, Claude Roswell, driving a Rolls-Royce. The two men engage in a series of pranks culminating in Roswell's framing Tom for car theft. Tom's name is cleared, and so he is able to drive in the big race and test his experimental tires. The tires prove to be successful, and he wins the race, a manufacturer's royalty contract, and Bess.
- A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
- Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- In Nigeria a jealous tin miner arouses the tribe against his rival.
- An orphan learns an artist's love is false, returns to the farm, and dies in a storm.
- A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
- When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.
- A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.
- Reconstruction of various battles which took place at Ypres.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.
- A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
- A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
- A hard ironmaster is blinded saving men in war and returns home to thwart a strike and win a Lady's daughter.
- A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?
- Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
- Aubrey Allington is an inventor with enormous ingenuity at dodging debts; but tradesmen all around are getting wise to his tricks. Just as he is about to resort to the desperate plan of inviting all his creditors to dinner and blowing them up en masse, he and his wife Louise discover to their astonishment that he has inherited a fortune from a distant relative which will enable them to pay off all their debts. However, begrudging the creditors so large a share in the money, they come up with an elaborate scheme which involves faking the indebted Aubrey's death in favour of the next heir named in the will, his cousin George Maitland. Unfortunately, Maitland turns out to have a wife to claim him, while their butler decides to get in on the act on his own behalf... not to mention the awkward fact that the real George is also on his way!
- A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of her past? How will the solution affect the haughty "lord?"
- In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother and is killed by a python.
- A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
- Paquita, a skilled rider, refuses to marry the unscrupulous Don Juan Gonzales, despite the wishes of her tyrannical stepfather. Paquita has fallen in love with Ramon, whom she rescued when he was being attacked by El Diablo, a proud, wild horse. Paquita's father forces her to dance at a disreputable tavern, and there, she again meets Ramon, who bests Juan in a fistfight. Paquita informs Ramon that she intends to regain control of her family's estates, even if she must marry the rich, anonymous American who purchased them. Soon after, Paquita's father shoots Juan and attempts to frame Ramon for the crime. The mob gathered by the father is determined to lynch Ramon, but El Diablo appears and scatters them. The police uncover the truth about the crime and arrest Juan, who has recovered from his wound. Paquita then learns that Ramon is the rich American who bought her family estates.
- An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
- A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
- Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating. Threatened with blackmail, Mrs. Young turns in desperation to Jack for help. Jack and Mary attempt to trap Cortelyou in a net of his own making, but the blackmailer is too smart, outwitting Jack and abducting Mary. Cortelyou also kidnaps Mrs. Young, keeping her and Mary in a deserted house. Jack learns of their whereabouts and arrives with the police. Cortelyou is arrested, Mrs. Young is saved from the consequences of scandal, and Jack proposes to Mary.