1908 Movies

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

When his wife dies, knight Svend Dyring gets married to noble Mrs. Guldborg. Little does the good knight know that Mrs. Guldborg is in fact pure evil,...

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese characters...

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 hoop...

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

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

It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operato...

Two gypsy lovers sneak away from camp at night. The man proposes, the woman refuses. He then murders her with a knife. The body is immediately discove...

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

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

A young man is seen entering his room and from the many expressions on his worn face one could not doubt that he is just returning from one grand nigh...

This French film isn't that well known today but it will mainly appeal to those film buffs with a thing for early cinema or those wanting to see some...

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and ev...

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the mo...

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this r...

A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day. A woman sits in front of her dressing table mirr...

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.