Most Viewed Year 1903

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

The story of the life and passion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

First film in the series, showing a pretty girl exercising with chest weights.

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

Historical legend composed of five Scenes. 1. William Tell's heroism. 2. The Plot. 3. The Apple. 4. Death of Gessler. 5. The Swiss cheer their...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces....

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...