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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It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Solter

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

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

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Florence Lawrence

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

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel...

Genre: Fantasy

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The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

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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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Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luigi Maggi

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

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

L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: L. Frank Baum

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

Genre: Action

Cast: George Gebhardt

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

Genre: Comedy

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Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests. When Razin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Inslee

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

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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