Anthony Slide, prolific film historian, author, and archivist, personally knew a few people who acted in his selections of 1915. This secondhand view of their production is combined with his wide historical knowledge of their significance to bring valuable insight to the year and period.

Anthony is the author of numerous books since 1970 and has served as archivist at the American Film Historian and resident film historian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Perhaps his most relevant book to this conversation is American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon and his works can be found at his site.

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• The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) - Wilfrid North and J. Stuart Blackton
• The Warrens of Virginia (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille
• Hypocrites (1915) - Lois Weber
• The Vampire (1915) - Alice Guy-Blache
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• Intolerance (1916) - D.W. Griffith
• A Fool There Was (1915) - Frank Powell
• Dracula (1931) - Tod Browning
• Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau
• The Struggle (1931) - D.W. Griffith
• Where Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
• The Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMille
• The Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille
• The Cheat (1931) - George Abbott
• Anna Christie (1923) - John Griffith Wray
• The Painted Lady (1912) - D.W. Griffith
• Gone with the Wind (1939) - Victor Fleming
• The Little American (1917) - Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph Levering
• Hearts of the World (1918) - D.W. Griffith
• The Italian (1915) - Reginald Barker
• Regeneration (1915) - Raoul Walsh
• Early American Cinema - Anthony Slide
• The Cinema and Ireland - Anthony Slide
• The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company - Anthony Slide
• Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers - Anthony Slide
• Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins - Anthony Slide
• "It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age - Anthony Slide
• The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché - Anthony Slide
• Butter with My Bread - Olga Petrova
• Lois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History - Anthony Slide