Most Viewed Year 1908

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Genre: Animation

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The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Genre: History

Cast: Charles le Bargy

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Segundo de Chomón

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Panzer

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Fernande Albany

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

Genre: Fantasy

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This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Gebhardt

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Julienne Mathieu

Early Balkan footage.

Genre: Documentary

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The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

Genre: Documentary

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On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur V. Johnson

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Florence Lawrence

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandre Arquillière

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle...

Genre: Comedy

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There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Bleuette Bernon

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hobart Bosworth

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

Genre: Comedy

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Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Edward Dillon

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

Genre: Drama

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