Most Viewed Year 1909

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Powell

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Sennett

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mary Pickford

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Bruce

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Arthur V. Johnson

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maurice Costello

An escaped convict takes refuge in the home of a police officer out on duty. He seizes the officer's daughter and pulls her into a window recess,...

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Cast: George Nichols

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur V. Johnson

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Sennett

Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pitje Ambreville

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Panzer

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Leonard

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

Genre: Horror

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As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry O'Moore

A man, his wife and their two sons are having a meal. One of the sons leaves the room pretending to be ill and collects a bunch of flowers form a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Linder

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Leonard

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

Genre: Western

Cast: Florence Lawrence