Most Viewed Year 1905 - 2

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A workman flees from a lunatic who wishes to return a putty knife.

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

A peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians....

Martyrs of the Inquisition

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Experiment in animation: birds flying.

Early Balkan footage.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Another magic short of Méliès.

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious...

Early Balkan footage.

A mass gathering of people.

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...