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- 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 1915 British silent historical film about Florence Nightingale, and her innovations in nursing care during the Crimean War.
- A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
- 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.
- 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 sailor is court-martialled for striking the officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's daughter.
- A clerk steals for a girl's sake and is forgiven on saving the life of the boss's daughter.
- A disfigured man becomes a circus puppeteer and tries to destroy a waif's love.
- A barrister's letter proves his bride shot her aged husband on learning he was already married.
- A detective tracks a girl through fingerprints on a forged note.
- A fishergirl learns she is a duke's lost daughter but returns to her humble family.
- Crooks tunnel through a fireplace to rob the house next door.
- A French orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy British nobleman. The family lives happily, unaware that a plot is afoot to kidnap the girl and make away with the nobleman's fortune.
- A girl robs a colonel and eludes a detective by posing as a curio dealer.
- Girls pose as a man and wife to share a flat with a married pair.
- A young woman poses as an accident victim and then robs her benefactor.
- A banker's thieving son enlists, is wounded, and wins a DSO.
- A Black Cross Gang woman returns a doctor's kidnapped daughter when he saves her own child from a fire.
- A girl helps her sister rob a baron's art gallery and escape over the roof.
- An Irish Nationalist give his life to save his rival, an Ulster Volunteer.
- Frederick Burlingham visits Vesuvius and climbs down into the crater accompanied by two Italian guides. Contains some nice actuality of Pompeii and the funicular railway leading to the summit of the volcano.
- A widow schemes to wed a rich squire by persuading his son to woo her governess.
- A highwayman saves the King from assassination.
- In Jamaica, an overseer ties his employer's daughter to a railway line.
- A drunkard returns home late and has a friend pose as a burglar.
- A ship's doctor, forced to operate on his beloved's husband, is saved by a hydroplane when the ship explodes.
- Policewomen, scared of burglars, arrest children.
- A man hires a burglar to steal his sister's necklace.
- The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
- The Lieutenant saves a dancer from a jealous lover's mob.
- An ex-convict has himself arrested so his wife may continue to receive her charity allowance.
- A countryman steals a cow, turns highwayman, robs a mail coach and is chased by the Bow Street Runners.
- In Paris an artist duels a rich patron for the love of a model.
- A coster sells dud seeds by planting flowers at night.
- A kidnapped heiress is saved by leaving a trail of hairpins.
- A typist inserts a 'wife wanted' advertisement in his boss's name.
- A man escapes jail by balloon and saves the daughter of the thief who framed him.
- A dog and a cat have a boxing match. The dog wins and smokes a pipe.
- In Australia, a man saves a starving family by posing as an outlaw for a reward.
- A 'dead' miner returns to kill his partner who has married his ex-fiancée and cause her death.
- A baron poses as a prince to elope with an anarchist's sister.
- Children use strong cement to trick a bill poster, PC, etc.
- An artist returns to a model after a drunken dream of living with a coquette.
- A captain tries to kill an heiress by fire but she escapes across telephone wires.
- A British girl is caught on the Franco-German frontier by the war.