Civilization's Child is a silent film from 1916 directed by Charles Giblyn under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince.

A reviewer in Moving Picture World mentioned one title card where "the efforts of a ward politician to get an unprotected girl into his clutches was symbolized by a realistic picture of a spider endeavoring to entice an unsuspecting little fly into the meshes of his web".

[2] After an idyllic childhood in the mountains of Russia, Berna accompanies her uncle to Kiev, to the Jewish part of the city.

Many Jewish residents of Kiev are killed by the Cossacks and Berna flees, taking ship for the United States.

In New York, she is exploited by a local boss, Jim McManus, who seduces her and puts her out onto the street as a prostitute.