The best movies 1908 Pagina 15

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

Stable hostler Joe loves his wife Annie, but she leaves him and their child for a wealthy gentleman, only to die destitute in London, where Joe's...

Short reportage

An Innkeeper introduces his young and pretty daughter to a wealthy old man who is in quest of a wife, but she being already in love spurns his...

A courtly drama of a bridegroom arrested for being intimate with the queen. To secure his release, his future bride sleeps with his rival. The film...

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature. He proposes and she accepts. She does...

Two singers do not enter and take up their position in the center of the stage. Instead, the camera discovers them, the woman on her balcony and the...

The film documents the course of events taking place during the Sokol Festival Gathering of the North-Bohemian District held in the town of...

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

A young peasant finds himself rejected by a beautiful girl and vows to take revenge on a fortunate rival. On Christmas night, when the girl's...

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

Also known as Sherlock Holmes

The fairest maiden is crowned queen of the May Day festival and the dignitaries of the town, surrounded by the cheering populace, music and...

After a fight in the forest against customs officers, one of the smugglers is denied of his share of the profits and thrown away. Making his way into...

A sheriff apprehends a bank robber and recovers the money. On the way back to town, the sheriff loses the recovered money in a crooked card game. The...

A dastardly woman carries out a con scheme in which she hypnotizes an unsuspecting gentleman, takes off her clothes, and steals his wallet.

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

French silent short film by Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

Prodigious feats of strength by two little wooden men who leave the most sophisticated puppets far behind.