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- During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
- A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
- Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- The British agent Larry travels to Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey in order to thwart a revolution.
- Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.
- About a contemporary white man who stumbles upon a tribe of people living exactly in the manner of their Mayan ancestors. Before the interloper's astonished eyes, a fascinating romantic drama plays itself out, as huntsman Uz falls in love with Lol with the mystical intervention of "apprentice witch" Zeb.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- A French novelist passes off a African shepherdess as a princess.
- A visiting American woman is shown how the people of an English village responded to invasions and threats through four historical vignettes.
- On the beautiful island of Samarang, in the Malay Straits, the natives of a small village depend on the ocean's bounty for their livelihood.
- Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. He looks back on his marriage to her mother. His wife Annette was always very unhappy; business kept him away from home. The doctor recommended indulging her whims for furs and jewels. Then Uncle Émile suggested a trip to Paris. All went well until the day they went to the circus and saw the lion-tamer, Rodrigo the Conqueror. Rodrigo becomes Annette's lover ... and the second ghost... But wait a second. There's a third ghost at the party!
- For the most part, this film by Marie Seton, is a series of scenes , depicting Mexican natives in picturesque rituals, ceremonies and rites. It was edited from 110,000 feet of negative film shot in Mexico by Sergei M. Eisentein for his unfinished film "Viva Mexico." Near the end of this 59-minute film a short plot is introduced. A peon seeks permission from his master to marry but instead of granting the request the master attacks the girl. The peon tries o fight back but is overpowered and with two other peons is buried alive. Wild horses trample over the peons.
- A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
- Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, an accursed artist.
- A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
- A short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
- An exhilarating view of skiing the German Alps, with a load in your pants.
- The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
- A romantic comedy mostly set on skis: a girl tries to show her boyfriend that she is just as good at winter sports, and gets help from two other boys.
- In Lucco everyone loves music, singing at any occasion, work can wait and so the state's debt. So the ruling princess bans music. Then singer Carlini returns home. Aided by a journalist and his daughter they fight the proclaim -with music.
- Bargee Will Laurie teams up with a traveling showman and they gain success with the help of Will's adopted daughter Annie.
- Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
- The favorite of Russian empress Catherine The Great, Count Orloff, is tasked with romancing a princess with claims to the throne, so that the empress can dispose of her more easily. Tragedy ensues.
- The film, with his permission, is dedicated to: His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop pf Boston and Dean of the American Hierarchy. A documentary telling of the story of two different Monastic orders. It begins with the history of the Monks of St. Bernard, with the monks plying their chores and religious services. A sequence showing the rescue of a traveler caught in an avalanche by the famous dogs is shown. The second part deals with the Trappist Monks at a Canadian Monastery.
- Produced by Stuart Lagg with the cooperation of the London Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Society, starts with the evolution of single cell and multi-cell life.Using various animals as illustrations, the point the film is striving for is driven home in convincing fashion. Of particular interest in the film is a comprehensive of the monkey and ape families in relation to man.