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- A fishergirl learns she is a duke's lost daughter but returns to her humble family.
- A dude saves a missionary's daughter from a Chinese opium den.
- The romantic attachment which the humbly born William Shakespeare had for the beautiful and gentle Charlotte Clopton, of Clopton Hall, is authenticated by the letters of many people of the period, and as it is one of the most potent factors in the development of the genius of Shakespeare, it is very appropriate that the film should open with the first meeting of the future playwright and the beautiful young girl. This acquaintance always remained a romantic one, on the part of young Shakespeare, but Charlotte felt the attraction more seriously. Meanwhile, Sir Hugh Clopton, Charlotte's father, who is an ardent Catholic, shelters in his house a man named Carry, who is a traitor to the Queen; he does this at the command of Pope Gregory XIII, not knowing the character of the man he is harboring. Shakespeare, pursuing the apparently gay and thoughtless tenor of his career, but in reality training the great qualities of mind which were afterwards to make him famous, displeases a lawyer in whose employ he has been, and while he is trying to explain this to his mother, a tragic scene takes place, in the assassination of the traitor Parry. Too late. Sir Hugh Clopton learns of Parry's treachery, through Shakespeare's lawyer employer, who informs Sir Thomas Lucy of the plot, and also accuses Sir Hugh of being in it. Sir Hugh's celebration of his daughter's birthday is rudely interrupted by the arrival of soldiers, who are come to arrest him for complicity in the treasonous design. The Queen pardons Sir Hugh, but his lovely daughter falls ill of a mysterious malady, which is wrongly diagnosed as The Plague, but which is a fatal one, nevertheless despite the great danger of infection. Shakespeare bids her a passionate farewell before she dies. Some months later Shakespeare, now beginning to be the great man of his village, champions pretty, shy Anne Hathaway at the Twelfth Night Revels. Their acquaintance ripens, and their courtship is played out in the beautiful environs of Stratford and about the Anne Hathaway cottage. In sharp contrast to the idyllic Anne Hathaway of the courtship, the wedded wife of Shakespeare is undoubtedly the shrew, whose sharp tongue drives her husband to the distraction of the "Lucy Arms." This condition of things, added to the fact that Shakespeare has incurred the displeasure of Sir Thomas Lucy by his poaching exploits, drives the young man to leave home. He decides to try his fortunes in London, so takes leave of Anne and his child and starts away. In London, Shakespeare views the great crowds of richly dressed people with astonishment, but he soon wins friends. The theater, of course, draws him, and outside the historic old Globe Theater he looks upon the scene of his future triumphs. The genius of the young dramatist is soon discovered by the great Lord Southampton, who becomes his generous patron and introduces him to the court of Queen Elizabeth, where he meets Raleigh, Drake, the Earl of Essex, and all the famous political and social figures of the time. The command performance of "Romeo and Juliet" in the Blackfriars Theater which is attended by the Queen and all the Court, marks the beginning of that triumph which was, through the following year, to be the great crescendo of English literature. The final stages of the film show Shakespeare in the glow of middle age. He is dreaming of his past successes, scenes from his great plays visioning themselves before him. The film closes with the fading in and fading out of the bust of Shakespeare, which is in the Parish Church of Stratford-on-Avon.
- A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
- A countryman steals a cow, turns highwayman, robs a mail coach and is chased by the Bow Street Runners.
- A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
- In Scotland a gamekeeper's daughter saves her lover when a poacher throws in into a river.
- A 1915 British silent historical film about Florence Nightingale, and her innovations in nursing care during the Crimean War.
- A squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.
- An incognito prince foils detectives by switching identities with a newlywed American millionaire.
- A blind man learns his wife is a music hall singer when he hears her voice on an electrophone.
- An heiress helps a counsel prove her fiancé did not kill a cabby's passenger.
- A butler dons his rival's police uniform and causes him trouble.
- An Irish Nationalist give his life to save his rival, an Ulster Volunteer.
- 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.
- A Duke deserts his wife on learning she was a shopgirl, and is blinded in a train crash.
- Crooks kidnap musicians, take their places, and rob a Lord's Ball.
- A clerk steals for a girl's sake and is forgiven on saving the life of the boss's daughter.
- A spy paints plans on a girl's back and is caught in Boulogne after a chase by motorcycle, horse, car and monoplane.
- A frightened woman stabs a burglar while her husband is ill in bed.
- 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 smith's daughter secretly weds an Earl and has a baby while posing as a spinster to secure an inheritance for her weak brother.
- A gambler blackmails a Lord's wife upon discovering his mistress is her mother.
- A colonel's son kills his sister's fiancé with a lieutenant's golf club.
- Uhlan tries to shoot a nurse as a spy when she thwarts his rape.
- A young woman poses as an accident victim and then robs her benefactor.
- A crook demands his Princess cousin in return for clearing a Prince of a theft charge.
- A widow wins the approval of her beloved's aunt.
- A drunkard's wife and family fool him with a tiger skin.
- A sailor is court-martialled for striking the officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's daughter.
- A midshipman's adventures fighting Spanish privateers.
- 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".
- Students mistake a wardrobe man for a friend's cousin.
- An army officer comes to the aid of a girl who is the object of unwelcome attention from some locals.
- An outlawed Earl forms a robber band and saves a girl from a knight.
- A highwayman holds up a stage and dances with the ladies, robs a banker, and eludes runners by posing as an old man.
- 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 collector mistakes a thief for his daughter's secret husband and vice versa.
- A jewel thief eludes a detective by changing clothes with a Negress at a public bath.
- A disowned gambler becomes a valet's valet when the valet inherits a fortune.
- A gang kidnap a doctor for a safe's combination and he is saved by a gypsy girl.
- A barrister's letter proves his bride shot her aged husband on learning he was already married.