1908 Movies

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

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

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle mai...

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese characters...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the source...

A girl walking in the woods is captured by an evil dwarf. He takes her home and forces her to keep house for him. Thanks to a beautiful fairy and the...

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

This picture is an illustration of the story of Beatrice Cenci, the young woman who planned the murder of her guardian, in Rome, in the year of 1599.

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel f...

A man is rude to everyone he meets and is thrown into the river.

Policemen singing a song.

Hulda is a maiden fair to look upon. Her artless rustic simplicity, rivaling Hebe's gorgeous radiance, phlogisticates the susceptible hearts of the vi...

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

The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and ev...

A short film starring Clément Mégé.

On a rainy and windy day there is marching a procession of priests and town dignitaries. A big community of priests is consecrating the foundation sto...

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1908.