Broken Fetters

{{short description|1916 film}}

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{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Broken Fetters

| image = Broken Fetters.jpg

| caption =

| director = Rex Ingram

| producer =

| writer = Rex Ingram

| starring = Kittens Reichert
Violet Mersereau
Charles Francis
Earl Simmons

| cinematography = Stanley Sinclair

| studio = Bluebird Photoplays

| distributor = Bluebird Photoplays

| released = {{Film date|1916|07|03}}

| runtime = 5 reels (approximately 50 minutes)

| country = United States

| language = Silent film
English intertitles

}}

Broken Fetters is a 1916 American silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram. Violet Mersereau played the lead role. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where Universal Studios and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.{{Citation | last = Koszarski | first = Richard | title = Fort Lee: The Film Town | place = Rome, Italy | publisher = John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski | isbn= 0-86196-653-8 }}{{Cite web | title = Studios and Films | publisher = Fort Lee Film Commission | url = http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | access-date = 2011-05-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110425014840/http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | archive-date = 2011-04-25 | url-status = dead }}{{Citation | last = Fort Lee Film Commission | title = Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2006 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry | isbn = 0-7385-4501-5 }}