1908 Movies

Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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...

Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his ho...

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costum...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

A posse forms to track down a band of cattle rustlers after a rancher offers $500 reward for their capture.

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

Manuella, a wealthy Mexican girl, rejects the honest cowboy Renaldo to marry Gonzales, a dashing but greedy musician. Upon finding her marriage-box em...

Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.

As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from t...

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

Short film about a military parade in Mainz.

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks fo...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive panorama...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him into bed. No sooner has...