Under Two Flags is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara.

It was the second adaptation of the best selling 1867 novel Under Two Flags by Ouida and the subsequent stage play version by Arthur Shirley.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] British nobleman Bertie Cecil (Heyes) takes upon himself the blame for his brother's forgeries and, when supposed dead, enlists in the French Foreign Legion, serving in Algiers.

There he wins the friendship of Emir, a native whose wife he had saved from the lust of his commanding officer.

Cigarette, the "daughter of the regiment," rides to obtain a pardon for Bertie and makes a terrific trip through a sand storm.