1900 Movies

This film title is almost, though not quite, false advertising. There's certainly a gale, and a wrecked ship, but the one didn't cause the other. This...

You’ll need your sea legs to watch this film, which was apparently filmed from a perilous position on the ship’s mast - in rough seas. This is a nauti...

Two chaps, a Gramophone, and a dog called Nipper. What could possibly go wrong?

Panorama of the quai de la Seine and the foreign pavilions of the Exhibition: Sweden, Monaco, Romania, Spain.

Panorama of the Quai de la Seine and the pavilions of the exhibition.

Movement of visitors in front of the Exhibition water tower.

“Same scenery as in the previous view, the sailors embark in the canoes which take them ashore.”

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

Southampton High Street, train view

this film is a documentary about the trip of Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar to Belgium. In Muzaffar al-Din Shah's travelogue, there is a report that is in...

British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900

This striking film re-stages an episode from the Matabele wars between African natives and British infantry

Exercises and jumps on parallel bars.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and destroying...

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene, popularised in early film generally, within a distinctly colonial context. As with similar films, it u...

George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting.

Mitchell & Kenyon.

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

New Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their de...