The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.
The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.
Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.
Historical film set during the Hundred Year War.
A lost film. Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. However, They soon find have have met their match with the arrival of Edith Morton, the new dentist.
As an escaped convict, Captain Midnight is welcomed into the Hellville band of bushrangers.
From the life and criminal career of bushranger Dan Morgan, leading up to his violent death at the hands of police.
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
Mrs. Hellertz is distraught about her son Aage, who – in spite of a good pay and generous support from home – manages to spend every penny on debauchery in the night life. He indebts himself deeply and falls into the clutches of a malicious loan shark who is out for Mrs. Hellertz's fortune. To complicate things further, Aage starts a relationship with the loan shark's beautiful daughter. (Stumfilm.dk)
A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics".
Menelaus is the king of Sparta and temporarily departs from his residence, leaving Helen, the queen of Sparta, without him. When Paris of Troy, ambassador and son of the king, arrives in Sparta, he kidnaps Helen and brings her to Troy where the two fall in love. The Greeks attempt to siege the city walls of Troy, but fail. The Greeks then place a huge wooden Trojan horse with Greek warriors hidden inside under the walls of Troy, pretending to be dedicated to the gods and ending the war. Falling for the trap, the Trojans break down the city walls to bring the wooden horse inside.
German silent film
A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck.
The story of the bushranger Ben Hall, including his duel with Melville, last stand and death.
The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.
A slumlord learns just how important it is to maintain clean living quarters when his wife contracts tuberculosis.
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
