Decades
177 films in this collection
Collection no. #144110 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A man protects a young woman from a thug, who retaliates by kidnapping him. She gathers neighbours to follow the attackers into the mountains, where…
Collection no. #14423 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A figure presented as Doctor Mesmer presides over a theatrical display of dancers and effects. The performance gives more space to the troupe's…
Collection no. #14433 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Figures in advertising posters come alive when the street is clear. Their flirtations and quarrels spill out of the billboard, until passing…
Collection no. #14452 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician enlarges playing cards and places them on a screen. Their royal figures step out into the room, and one of the apparent characters turns…
Collection no. #14461 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a dancing boy from an empty paper cylinder. Disappearance and reappearance lead to further transformations, frustrating the…
Collection no. #14482 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical…
Collection no. #14496 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Airships attack England while an inventor prepares a defensive missile. When a bomb strikes his sweetheart's home, he must interrupt the experiment…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two music-hall clowns compete for control of the same stage. A mannequin that becomes a dancer offers one performer a spectacular trick, but his…
Collection no. #14512 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the…
Collection no. #146014 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An Indigenous community is forced to retreat as white settlers advance. The film presents displacement through the people losing their home, turning…
Collection no. #14612 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more…
Collection no. #14623 minLucien Nonguet
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dispute over food aboard the battleship Potemkin becomes a mutiny after a sailor is killed. Public mourning in Odessa is followed by bombardment…
Collection no. #14681 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An elderly dealer's curiosity shop becomes a place of disturbing apparitions. Objects and figures no longer behave as expected, leaving the…
Collection no. #14755 minFerdinand Zecca
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Factory workers strike after their demands for arbitration are rejected. A violent confrontation kills a worker, prompting his wife to attack the…
Collection no. #14767 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Encouraged by a friend, a man challenges professional wrestlers at a fair. The bouts become increasingly exaggerated, until his encounter with a much…
Collection no. #14774 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young couple ignores a warning and enters a ruined temple. Priests trap them inside while a spirit fills the space with fire, leaving them to seek…
Collection no. #14784 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician presents oversized playing cards and a troublesome head that emerges from a crate. The demonstration turns into a chase when an object…