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

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 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

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

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: Documentary

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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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Solter

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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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

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

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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At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man...

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Cast: Linda Arvidson

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

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A group of people take roller skating too far.

Genre: Comedy

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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

About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gene Gauntier

A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of...

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Cast: Harry Solter

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