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

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

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Powell

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in...

Genre: History

Cast: Alberto Capozzi

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

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

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...

Genre: Western

Cast: Owen Moore

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...

Genre: Romance

Cast:

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Leonard

Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gertrude Robinson

A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry O'Moore

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat Hartigan

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Genre: Drama

Cast:

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