1908 Movies

The oldest surviving Polish film, Pruska Kultura depicts the persecution of Poles under Prussian Germanisation, drawing on events such as the 1901 Wrz...

On the dangerous coast of Brittany, where the Ocean and the Channel meet, pirates wait for ships to be drawn by the current, they raid the wrecks and...

The Germans were not far behind when if came to experimenting with sound and the surviving discs seem like a curious anachronism because they closely...

Ready, steady, relay! This newsreel captures the pepped-up mood of the camera-conscious youngsters assembled for the South London Schools Sports event...

Short film from 1908

Typical story where the father (a farmer) of a beautiful girl desires a wealthy man as a son-in-law and rejects her poor but honest suitor.

Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the lid...

A proud father takes his many children to an outing.

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of t...

Robbers wait by the roadside ready to spring upon a series of passing travellers, gleefully hiding their stolen plunder in a hollow tree. When a Jewis...