Zowonedwa Kwambiri Chaka 1907

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections....

A man with a bald head visits a specialist and places an order for an especially strong hair tonic. Late in the evening a messenger is dispatched...

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

A dramatic short.

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

Medieval legend, a story about marital fidelity of the falsely accused Genevieve towards her husband Siegfried. The story has been adopted in several...

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

Children from a wealthy family are playing in a garden. They encounter poor children, looking sad and sickly, who watch them play with envy. Moved to...

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César...

Cheering crowds and much jubilation greet the launch of the Accrington to Oswaldtwistle electric tram service.

A middle-aged woman in rural dress and a young woman in a smarter dress are picking up herbs in a forest. The workload and the sunny day call for a...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A nanny quits her job, and convinces all the other nannies in the apartment building to go out on strike. The strike spreads to the city, with...