1908 Movies

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his ho...

Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costum...

In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dea...

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé....

The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and ev...

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little ci...

A silent short about a Sioux Indian by D.W. Griffith.

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too sol...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missi...

A young boy’s toys come to life through animation.