1908 Movies

The poet Bellman enjoys life in 18th Century Stockholm, while a conspiracy to murder King Gustaf III is taking form.

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a monkey, and camp for the night....

Policemen singing a song.

Departure from the funeral procession of Colonel João Batista de Melo Oliveira and his arrival at the Cemetery of Consolation, São Paulo.

The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purch...

Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.

Albert Capellani's retelling of the biblical passage, previously taken to the screen by Ferdinand Zecca in 1902.

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of the...

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

Little Johnny is presented with an air gun that shoots darts. He decided to play pranks with it.

Filmed visit in Peru, at the Tent of San Juan de Dios.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji Gassen” was sho...

A young man is seen entering his room and from the many expressions on his worn face one could not doubt that he is just returning from one grand nigh...

Images of Sicily.

About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced remo...

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 his...

Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawkswort...