Most Viewed Year 1897

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are...

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

A Japanese family having tea.