1909 Movies

Moses uses his last pennies to help a friend in need. 25 years later the men meet again.

One of the oldest surviving films dramatizing elements of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoléon is played by Max Charlier, but the director for thi...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

Based on Aleksey Tolstoy's piece of the same name.

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and...

On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair becomes hairpieces. Last scene, an elegant Parisian re...

Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.

Romance of a Boot and a Dancing Slipper

In a mansion full of secret rooms and passageways, people are dying shortly after seeing the ghost of a woman in gray, as an old legend dictates. Call...

African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.

Lubin's The Doctor's Bride begins as the physician hero marries the daughter of a deceased patient. Accustomed to deprivation and poverty, the heroine...

Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife...

A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.

When war breaks out between Denmark and Germany in 1848, Christian from poor Nyboder is hired as a bugler. Zealous and proud, he leaves Copenhagen wit...

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.”

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After having maste...