Most Viewed Year 1908 - 1

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

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

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property,...

Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

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

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

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...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother...