1905 Movies

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early f...

A soldier attempts to rest at an inn, but his bed plays tricks on him, never giving the poor man a chance to sleep. The inn continues to haunt him unt...

Balkan actuality.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

A man is chased by ten women!

Martyrs of the Inquisition

Street views from the danish capital. Among the various retailers and businesses seen is Serpent Bicycle Shop, the newly built Hotel Cosmopolite, Hote...

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by...

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special c...

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 silverware...

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 pol...

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they rea...

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.

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.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with h...

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.