Most Viewed Year 1899

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A silent film, likely about someone leaving a bath

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...