1909 Movies

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that h...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.

"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical T...

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

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

A tramp in his haste to escape from the clutches of the law, rushes into a second-hand store and hides in a folding lounge. The lounge changes hands s...

First known Russian film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's work, and reportedly the directorial debut of Pyotr Chardynin.

A doll fetches a nurse when children elope.

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic tu...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very lo...

When war breaks out between Denmark and Germany in 1848, Christian from poor Nyboder is hired as a bugler. Zealous and proud, he leaves Copenhagen wit...

Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After having maste...

One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presume...

Early short film dramatizing the biblical story of Jephthah (Judges 11).

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cr...

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.