The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an...

It is love at first sight when Armand Duval meets the courtisan Marguerite. They move in together and live happily until Armands father secretly pays...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path. (From a...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".

A four-year-old saves the day.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the...

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

A hobo on roller skates creates havoc in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A nicely-dressed man is riding on a bicycle. When he parks it a hobo quickly steals it, but he is clearly new at riding. He cannot manage to steer...

Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer discovers them together, he makes it clear that Jack is...

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

Four nude girls prance about in a small clearing in a dense wood or green garden. Two stay coyly to the left, one dances in the front with a flowing,...

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Native troops in what look like US Army uniforms do formation practicing with rifles in bayonet maneuver.

A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

The story of a little girl and her pets, a horse and a dog, whose marvelous intelligence is most strikingly shown. The little girl, whose home is at...

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

Young men playing on a floating platform off the coast of Honolulu.