Query: American historical films set in the British Empire that exclude security and surveillance.
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
To Have and to Hold (1922 film)
The New World (2005 film)
The Deemster (1917 film)
To Have and to Hold (1916 film)
Green Dolphin Street (film)
Allegheny Uprising
Adam's Woman
Plymouth Adventure
Rogue's March (film)
Evidence from documents: To Have and to Hold (1922 film): '''''To Have and to Hold''''' is a 1922 American silent historical drama film. Based on the 1899 novel of the same name, the film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Bert Lytell and Betty Compson.


''To Have and to Hold'' is now considered lost.
* Betty Compson as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
* Bert Lytell as Captain Ralph Percy
* Theodore Kosloff as Lord Carnal
* William J. Ferguson as Jeremy Sparrow
* Raymond Hatton as King James I
* Claire Du Brey as Patience Worth
* Walter Long as Red Gill
* Anne Cornwall as Lady Jane Carr

* Fred Huntley as Paradise
* Arthur Rankin as Lord Cecil
* Lucien Littlefield as Duke of Buckingham
The novel was first adapted for the screen in 1916. The 1916 version starred Mae Murray and Wallace Reid, and is also considered lost.
The New World (2005 film): '''''The New World''''' is a 2005 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powhatan tribe, and Englishman John Rolfe. It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick.
The Deemster (1917 film): '''''The Deemster''''' is a 1917 American drama silent film, released by Arrow Film Corporation, directed by Howell Hansel, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Marian Swayne.
The plot description in the February 24, 1917 issue of ''Moving Picture World'' reads:


Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man, the baron of the Isle of Man, whose temporal power is higher even than that of the Deemster, or governor. The Bishop desires Dan to become a minister, but he prefers to be a fisherman. The Deemster of Man has a son and a daughter, Mona and Ewan. Dan and Mona are in love. She consents to marry him when he can obtain her father's consent. Ewan, her brother, decides to become a clergyman, even in the face of his father's insistence that he take up business as a vocation.
To Have and to Hold (1916 film): '''''To Have and to Hold''''' is a 1916 American silent adventure/drama film directed by George Melford. Based on the 1899 novel of the same name, the film starred Wallace Reid and Mae Murray in her film debut.


The film is based on a novel by Mary Johnston which was turned into a play in 1901 by E. F. Boddington. The Broadway version starred Isabel Irving and Robert Loraine in the lead roles. Also in this play was a 20-year-old actor and aspiring playwright named Cecil B. DeMille.
Green Dolphin Street (film): '''''Green Dolphin Street''''' is a 1947 historical drama disaster film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the 1944 novel ''Green Dolphin Street'' by Elizabeth Goudge, published in Britain as ''Green Dolphin Country''.
In the 1840s, in the town of San Pierre on the English Channel Island of Guernsey, two sisters, Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne Patourel (Lana Turner), daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), fall in love with the same young man, William Ozanne (Richard Hart). Marguerite is sweet and simple, while Marianne is extremely shrewd and plans to take over the family shipping business. William is the son of Dr. Edmond Ozanne (Frank Morgan), who has recently returned to the island after many years away. Additionally, Dr. Ozanne is the former teenage lover of Sophie Patourel (Gladys Cooper), Marguerite and Marianne's mother. Sophie's mother broke up their youthful romance over Edmond's heavy drinking and lower social status. She married Octavius afterwards, under pressure from her parents.
Allegheny Uprising: American historical films: ''''Allegheny Uprising''''' (released in the UK as '''''The First Rebel''''') is a 1939 American Adventure Western film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne. Based on the 1937 novel ''The First Rebel'' by Neil H. Swanson, with a screenplay by the film's producer, P. J. Wolfson, the film is loosely based on the historical event known as the Black Boys Rebellion of 1765, after the conclusion of the French and Indian War. It was produced by RKO Pictures.
set in the British Empire: Local adventurer James Smith and his followers complain to British officials, pressuring them to make it illegal to trade weapons to the Indians.
Adam's Woman: American historical films: '''''Adam's Woman''''' is a 1970 Australian-American historical drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow and John Mills.
set in the British Empire: In the 1840s, an American sailor ashore in Liverpool is wrongly convicted and sent to the penal colony in Sydney, Australia where he enters into a battle of wills with the Governor.
Plymouth Adventure: This was veteran director Brown's final film.
The film tells a fictionalized version of the Pilgrims' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to North America aboard the ''Mayflower''. During the long sea voyage, Capt. Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) falls in love with Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), the wife of William Bradford (Leo Genn). The love triangle is resolved in a tragic way at the film's conclusion. Ship's carpenter John Alden (Van Johnson)—said to be the first person to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620—catches the eye of Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams), one of the young Pilgrims following William Bradford. Alden ultimately wins Priscilla in another, if subtler, triangle with Miles Standish (Noel Drayton). Lloyd Bridges provides comic relief as the first-mate Coppin, and child star Tommy Ivo gives a touching performance as young William Button, the only passenger to die on the actual voyage across the storm-swept Atlantic, who, according to this film, wanted to be the first to sight land and to become a king in the New World. “I’m going to be the first to see land. Keep me eye peeled, I will. Then I’ll be the first. It’ll be like the Garden of Eden and I’m going to be the first to see it”
Rogue's March (film): American historical films: '''''Rogue's March''''' is a 1953 American historical adventure film
set in the British Empire: In the Victorian era, a British officer is falsely accused of treason and drummed out of his regiment.