1908 Movies

The poet Bellman enjoys life in 18th Century Stockholm, while a conspiracy to murder King Gustaf III is taking form.

Barcarola is a 1908 Brazilian film directed by Júlio Ferrez. It was the first "sound" film in Brazil, that is, with actors dubbing themselves live, be...

Filmed visit in Peru, at the Tent of San Juan de Dios.

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost. Though the plot of the film is unknown, it may have been built arou...

A gang of outlaws are planning a bank robbery. After making preparations, they commit the robbery and make their escape amidst a sharp exchange of bul...

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

A fraudster is at work in his laboratory, where he pretends to make synthetic diamonds.

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

Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of the...

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the dancer's...

Patients behave like apes after being given monkey-gland injections.

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and...

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a mi...

Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

Two singers do not enter and take up their position in the center of the stage. Instead, the camera discovers them, the woman on her balcony and the m...

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

Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the A...

Some jubilant young men have decided to end their evening of pleasure by taking supper in a restaurant after having passed a few hours at a masquerade...

A band of musicians stage a fake murder as a practical joke for their grumpy, curious neighbor.

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....