1906 Movies

Danish filmmaker Peter Elfelt took his camera to the bottom of the slopes at the skiing competition in Norway. At the bottom of the slope the director...

A drunken man gets into a fight with everyone he meets.

t's one of those pageants from history, in which Roman centurions fight caveman with halberds, Queen Elizabeth arrives in a carriage, and another quee...

When New Zealand’s longest-serving prime minister, Richard John Seddon, suddenly took ill and died during his voyage home from a diplomatic trip to Au...

The film starts with a lovely long shot of the Artist at work in a dappled glade, where he first meets the Miner's Daughter. The Artist asks the Miner...

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great speed...

This exciting and somewhat dangerous sport has attained a popularity at all the Swiss winter resorts that is really remarkable. The film depicts in a...

Herring fishing in Bohuslän, Sweden, as caught on camera in January 1906.

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand at the e...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

Early Biograph short on the results of marrying for financial gain.

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the Secretary of Wa...

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

King Haakon travels to Trondhjem.

Robert K. Bonine documents the destruction of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers, Dago...

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film c...