Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents' house. George leads the search party, but doesn't reveal his brother's hiding place, and Robert escapes. After the war, George is a hero and Robert is down on his luck. George cautiously welcomes him back into the family home.

An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a deserter.

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission and must run for his life, pursued by Confederate soldiers.

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.

A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.

Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.

Il sudista Ben Cameron, dopo la vittoria del Nord, fonda il Ku Klux Klan come autodifesa dei bianchi di fronte all'arroganza dei neri. Lo colpisce la tragedia del suicidio della sorella, violentata da un uomo di colore. Grazie a lui, i bianchi riprendono il controllo della situazione, dopodiché Ben potrà sposare l'amata Elsie, appartenente a una famiglia che si era schierata dalla parte dei nordisti. Sorpassato e reazionario nei contenuti, ma opera fondamentale nella storia del cinema: il linguaggio cinematografico dimostra qui di avere raggiunto piena maturità espressiva e Griffith si conquista di diritto il primato tra i padri della nuova arte.

Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home brings Major Rushton, his superior officer, who falls in love with Sallie, "the little Yank."

Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.

Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

Durante la guerra civile americana, un gruppo di soldati nordisti cattura un treno ad Atlanta e tenta di portarlo a Chattanooga. Il macchinista Johnnie Gray (Keaton) li insegue per salvare i suoi due amori: la locomotiva "The General" e la fidanzata Annabelle. Uno dei capoloavori del cinema muto.

Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself by caught with maps showing false Union troop dispositions. Of course the penalty then as now is execution.

Nato da una famiglia di boscaioli, Abraham Lincoln è un giovane intraprendente: si laurea in legge, diventa avvocato e comincia a occuparsi con passione di politica. La sua carriera è rapidissima, fino all'elezione alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti alla vigilia della guerra civile. Lincoln riesce a porre termine al conflitto e a tenere unita la nazione, ma proprio quando tutto sembra risolto viene ucciso in un attentato.

Quattro sorelle vivono la loro semplice vita intorno alla mamma con affetto scambievole. In particolare Jo trema sempre al pensiero che l'amore dovrà un giorno dividerle. E quando una di esse, Meg, si sposa ella si rattrista al punto da respingere l'amore proffertole da un giovane vicino di casa, Laurie. Per questo se ne va a New York a far l'istruttrice presso una famiglia dove conosce un simpatico professore straniero che ammira le novelle che lei scrive e stringe con lei la più affettuosa amicizia. Intanto Beth, un'altra sorella, muore ed Ami, la più piccola, sposa il giovane vicino che Jo aveva respinto. Questa allora, rimasta sola, vede finalmente sorriderle l'amore nella persona del professore che la sposa.

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.

Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.

Il famigerato finanziere Jim Fisk, che fa e perde fortune, cerca di monopolizzare il mercato dell'oro e di conquistare il cuore di una bella attrice.