1908 Movies

When his wife dies, knight Svend Dyring gets married to noble Mrs. Guldborg. Little does the good knight know that Mrs. Guldborg is in fact pure evil,...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the source...

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 pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director is this film is unknown.

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day. A woman sits in front of her dressing table mirr...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

The hero, who fancies himself a ladies' man, cannot resist winking at every comely lass who passes his way. Unfortunately, he winks once too often, an...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop...

Film about an inventor going wild

A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

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...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hop...

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed and...

A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are se...