1909 Movies

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws fir...

Short color documentary about hats and hairstyles in Holland

It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lini...

African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

A Segundo de Chomón film filled with stop-motion animation and ghosts.

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.

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

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His be...

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and...

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Thr...

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested. O...

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, a...

A drama of the mountains of Switzerland.

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed of heart shapes.