1908 Movies

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 begin...

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

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

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purch...

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

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 ke...

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph sto...

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 i...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the source...

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are se...

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the ghos...

Maurice Chevalier simply can't stop dancing.