The best movies 1908

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

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,...

L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular...

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

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

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

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....

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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

Signed by neurology professor Camillo Negro and cinematographer Roberto Omegna for the Società Anonima Ambrosio of Turin, Neuropathology is...

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

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

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

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...

Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

An Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

Very early footage of the streets of Barcelona, filmed from a tram.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

The silent Spanish version of the story of Don Juan Tenorio.

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their...