The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an...

A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

The scene is set on a castle in the mid-18th century. The princess loves a young man from the court, but the king wants her married to an older,...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

Western Justice is a silent Western

The film is several vignettes of slap stick presentation of racial stereotypes. We are treated to murderous Mexicans, conniving Jews, brawling Irish,...

Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.

Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...

A young woman's involuntary head twitch is misinterpreted, as she and her husband are pursued around Paris by an ever-growing group of adoring men.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and...

A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

A modern days Diana comes to the border of a wood, near a water creek with canes, undresses, and places each clothing item on a tree branch. The...

Four nude girls prance about in a small clearing in a dense wood or green garden. Two stay coyly to the left, one dances in the front with a flowing,...