The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'

Under the current copyright laws of the United States, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of their renewal status. This film, directed by D.W. Griffith and based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, was originally released on August 2, 1914. Because the film was published more than 95 years ago and falls well before the 1928 threshold, its statutory copyright term has expired. It is a well-documented example of early silent cinema and is widely available from various public domain archives and distributors including the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions.