Most Viewed Year 1908 - 1

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...

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

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

Two big game hunters are on safari in the jungle with their African guide. They observe zebras, ostrich and a hippopotamus, and catch a small monkey...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

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

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

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

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and...

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...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little...

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...

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

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

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

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.