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...

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

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

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...

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but...

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

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

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

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

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...

Early Balkan footage.

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

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...

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

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.