Most Viewed Year 1908 - 9

The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of...

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

An excellent reproduction of the world-famed riders of Russia in their various stunts and acrobatic feats while on their thoroughbred horses.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

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

With the family of Mr. Phlipp there is employed that wrecker of domestic serenity, a pretty French maid, whose trim figure and cherry lips are simply...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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...

A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here...

Short reportage

A comedic short about a clumsy valet.

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.