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...

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...

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.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

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

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

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...

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

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

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...

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

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...

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...

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

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...

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...