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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

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...

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

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

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...

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man...

In this comedy we see a fellow giving orders to the cook to put plenty of garlic in his food, and she complies with his wishes by giving everything...

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,...

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

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

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...

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

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