1908 Movies

Early Balkan footage.

James Haggar steals a sheep and is chased by the shepherds and the police.

A silent short about a Sioux Indian by D.W. Griffith.

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides...

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering ch...

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...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined t...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

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

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...

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild, rec...

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

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

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

Early Balkan footage.

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they begin...