Most Viewed Year 1905

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

Another magic short of Méliès.

Early Balkan footage.

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.