1914 in film

Events

• February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences.
• February 8 - Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques.
• February 10 - Release of the film Hearts Adrift; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
• February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation, a distributor of independently produced films located in Fort Lee, New Jersey,
• March 8 - D. W. Griffith's first feature film, Judith of Bethulia, is released. It was his last production for the Biograph Company.
• March 20 - Tess of the Storm Country makes Mary Pickford an icon in the US and a celebrity around the world.
• March 31 – The serial The Perils of Pauline is an early example of the damsel in distress in film.
• April 12 – The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• April 18 – The film Cabiria is released featuring extensive use of a moving camera for the first time in film.
• May 8 – Paramount Pictures is formed as a film distributor by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
• November 19 – William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company releases its first production, Life's Shop Window
• December 3 – William S. Hart appears in his first feature film, The Bargain, which makes him a star.
• December 21 – Release of the first American made feature-length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, which was also Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin's feature film debuts.
• December – Chaplin joins Essanay Studios for $1,250 per week.
• Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma
• The Neptune Film Company opens the first of the Elstree Studios, the first "dark stage" in England, at Borehamwood, north of London.

  Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

Selected films released in 1914

• January – The House of Bondage a lost 1914 silent film drama directed by Pierce Kingsley and starring Lottie Pickford.
• January 3 – Engelein, German silent comedy film written and directed by Urban Gad
• January 12 – Fantômas Contre Fantômas
• January 14 – Captive Souls a Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz
• January 22 – Absinthe American silent drama film starring King Baggot and Leah Baird and directed by Herbert Brenon
• February 2 – Making a Living the first film starring Charlie Chaplin.
• February 5 – O Mimi San, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
• February 7 – Kid Auto Races at Venice, starring Charlie Chaplin
• February 8 – Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated film that incorporated many cinematic innovations
• February 9 – Mabel's Strange Predicament, starring Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• February 12 – The Squaw Man, directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille, starring Dustin Farnum
• March 1 - How Moscha Came Back, silent film comedy short directed by Phillips Smalley
• March 8 – Judith of Bethulia, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
• March 24 – The Avenging Conscience, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
• March 31 – The Perils of Pauline,, starring Pearl White
• April 6 – The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Alma Taylor
• April 15 – Brewster's Millions
• April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Not the first dolly moving camera shot, but it may be the first dolly moving camera shot in a feature film. A blockbuster feature film of 1914.
• April 18 – Mabel at the Wheel, starring Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, and Charlie Chaplin
• April 23 – A Little Madonna
• May 11 – The Master Mind
• May – Mr. Barnes of New York
• June 8 – The Wrath of Gods, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
• June 15 – The Only Son
• June 22 – The Million Dollar Mystery,, starring Florence La Badie
• July 13 – My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
• July 13 – The Man on the Box
• July 17 – The Stain, starring Theda Bara
• July 22 – By the Sun's Rays
• August 10 – The Call of the North, starring Robert Edeson
• September 7 – The Virginian, starring Dustin Farnum
• September 23 – The Aztec Treasure
• September 28 – The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• September 28 – The Magic Cloak of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• October 14 – His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• October 14 – Mabel's Blunder
• October 22 – What's His Name, starring Max Figman
• November 2 – Salomy Jane
• November 7 – The Hazards of Helen,, starring Helen Holmes
• November 7 – His Musical Career, starring Charlie Chaplin
• November 9 – The Man from Home
• November 9 – The Wishing Ring
• November 13 – Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay, considered to be the first Turkish movie –
• November 15 – Rose of the Rancho, starring Bessie Barriscale
• November 19 – Life's Shop Window, first film produced by William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company, the forerunner to Fox Film
• December 7 – The Ghost Breaker
• December 7 – His Prehistoric Past, written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin
• December 7 – In the Land of the Head Hunters
• December 14 – The Last Egyptian
• December 21 – Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin. First comedy feature film.
• December 28 – A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson
• December 28 – Cinderella, starring Mary Pickford
• December 28 – The Exploits of Elaine,, starring Pearl White

  Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson
• Harold Lloyd
• Charlie Chaplin

  Births

• January 5 – George Reeves, actor
• January 6 – Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian
• January 14 – Harold Russell, actor
• January 30 – John Ireland, actor
• February 3 – Mary Carlisle, actress
• February 17 – Arthur Kennedy, actor
• February 21 – Zachary Scott, actor
• February 26 – Robert Alda, actor
• March 2 – Martin Ritt, director
• March 3 – Charlotte Henry, actress
• April 2 – Alec Guinness, actor
• April 4 – Richard Coogan, actor
• April 16 – John Hodiak, actor
• May 5 – Tyrone Power, actor
• May 24 – Lilli Palmer, actress
• June 7 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
• June 18 – E. G. Marshall, actor
• June 21 – Wensley Pithey, character actor
• July 23 - Julie Mitchum, actress
• July 29 – Irwin Corey, comedian
• July 31 – Louis de Funès, actor
• August 2 – Beatrice Straight, actress
• August 14 – Andrea Leeds, actress
• August 31 – Richard Basehart, actor
• September 10 – Robert Wise, director
• September 12 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor
• September 20 – Kenneth More English actor
• September 27 – Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer
• October 26 – Jackie Coogan, actor
• October 30 – Anna Wing, actress
• November 8 – Norman Lloyd, actor
• November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, actress
• November 13
• *Amelia Bence, actress
• *Henri Langlois, film preservationist
• *Alberto Lattuada, director
• November 23 – Roger Avon, British film and television actor
• December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, actress
• December 13 – Larry Parks, actor
• December 26 – Richard Widmark, actor
• December 30 – Jo Van Fleet, actress

  Deaths

• January 9 – Gladys Rankin, American actress as Mrs. Sidney Drew; writer as George Cameron
• January 11 – William A. Russell, 35, American actor
• March 25 – Frederic Mistral, 83, French writer, Mireille
• June 19 – Brandon Thomas, 65, British writer, Charley's Aunt
• July 1
• * Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across the Border
• * Owen Carter, American cinematographer died while trying to save Grace McHugh, Across the Border
• August 21 – Charles J. Hite, 38, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
• August 22 – David Davie Shelby, 66, actor.
• October 24 – Gustav Wied, 56, Danish playwright and novelist
• November 14 – Stellan Rye, 34, Danish film director, Dur Verfuhrte, Evinrude, The Student of Prague

  Film debuts

• Theda Bara – The Stain
• Ethel Barrymore – The Nightingale
• John Barrymore – An American Citizen
• Milton Berle – Bunny's Little Brother
• Charlie Chaplin – writer, Kid Auto Races at Venice ; actor, Making a Living ; director, Twenty Minutes of Love
• Marguerite Clark – Wildflower
• Henrietta Crosman – The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch
• Dorothy Dalton – Pierre of the Plains
• Hazel Dawn – One of Our Girls
• Cecil B. DeMille – director, The Squaw Man
• Sam De Grasse – Texas Bill's Last Ride
• Gaby Deslys – La remplacante
• Oliver Hardy – Outwitting Dad
• Sessue Hayakawa – O Mimi San
• Emil Jannings – Passionels Tagebuch
• Thomas Meighan – Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman
• Adolphe Menjou – The Acid Test
• Beatriz Michelena – Salomy Jane
• Musidora – Sainte-Odile
• Pola Negri – Slave of Passion, Slave of Vice
• Tyrone Power, Sr. – Aristocracy
• Milton Sills – The Pit
• Gloria Swanson – The Song of the Soul
• Constance Talmadge – Buddy's First Call
• Rudolph Valentino – The Battle of the Sexes
• H. B. Warner – The Lost Paradise