Most Viewed Year 1908 - 21

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed...

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi,...

A drunk dreams that he is carried off to Hell.

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

Song from an Operetta.

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a...

A man picks up a man in drag. Short Italian comedy from 1908.

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

An early account of Marat's murder, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Charlotte Corday.

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...

The Magistrate's Conscience - A drama from Pathé Frères.

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

Traveling by boat to film Copenhagen from a different angle.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

The Germans were not far behind when if came to experimenting with sound and the surviving discs seem like a curious anachronism because they closely...

Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.