1905 Movies

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...

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

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

Martyrs of the Inquisition

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

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 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...

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A magician shows tricks with money.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

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.

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...

A portrait of the Dam family.

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

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

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious...

Prince Carl alongside his wife Princess Maud leaves Denmark to become King Haakon of Norway on 23 November 1905.

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.

A young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot,...