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An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel...

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

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of...

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

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...

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

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

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

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 short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...