1899 Movies

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on 23r...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

Street scene shot from a balloon.

Showing Central Park in the background.

A kitten plays with a small piece of wood attached to a string.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this...

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Recreation of military maneuvers in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War.

Asian remake of Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, apparently.

The only picture extant showing this wonderful performance of a horse diving from a staging 40 feet in height into the water. Scenes secured at the Sh...