Lumiere Movies

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

An oddly routed parade.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Soldiers dancing.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

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Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets ca...

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away a...