Most Viewed Year 1908 - 3

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined...

A group of people take roller skating too far.

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

The film is quite sophisticated for it's time with a relatively large number of scene changes as we follow Max's misadventures. It also features a...

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

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

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

A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to...