1909 Movies

Houdini and his wife Bess are walking along the Seine in Paris, when he encounters a melee between a drunkard and the police. In the ensuing confusion...

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A child dreams of the Bible tale, reenacted by toys.

A man behaves like a monkey after its brain is transplanted into him.

A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds...

John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...

Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.

When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away from...

Based on a the horror novella of the same name. First Russian horror film.

A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when forc...

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...

A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own eleg...

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch one and take her aboard the boat--taking her back t...

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.

Jim Flanders, a wealthy ranchman, has a beautiful daughter, Alice, who is loved by Tom Ripley, the foreman of the ranch. The match is objected to by F...

Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.