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1900s English-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 173 movies or TV shows/series

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The Great Train Robbery(1903)

12min | Crime, Action, Western
3.5/5 (with 257 votes)

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Mad Love(1995)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 43 votes)

Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

A Corner in Wheat(1909)

14min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

Life of an American Fireman(1903)

6min | Action
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter, George S. Fleming - With James White

The Lonely Villa(1909)

3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

Ben Hur(1907)

2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

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

Directed by Sidney Olcott, Harry T. Morey, Frank Oakes Rose - With Herman Rottger, William S. Hart

Electrocuting an Elephant(1903)

1.4/5 (with 32 votes)

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Directed by Thomas Edison

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend(1906)

6min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.

The Merry Frolics of Satan(1906)

3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

The Mended Lute(1909)

11min | Western
2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

The Taming of the Shrew(1908)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

The Adventures of Dollie(1908)

12min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

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The Airship Destroyer(1909)

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

The Country Doctor(1909)

14min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces(1906)

3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

The Haunted Hotel(1907)

2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

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

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

The '?' Motorist(1906)

3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost(1901)

4min | Drama, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A scene from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

The Story of the Kelly Gang(1906)

2.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.

Directed by Charles Tait, Millard Johnson, William Gibson - With John Tait

The Life of Moses(1909)

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910. A Vitagraph advertisement in the Moving Picture World (31 Dec. 1909) refers to The Life of Moses as a "Biblical Film-de-Luxe". It is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, Charles Kent - With William Humphrey, Charles Kent, Edith Storey, Pat Hartigan, Julia Arthur

Jack and the Beanstalk(1902)

3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies' , Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.

President McKinley Taking the Oath(1901)

2.4/5 (with 12 votes)

President McKinley taking the Oath.

Directed by Thomas Edison - With William McKinley

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1905)

12min | Drama, Crime

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

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton - With Kyrle Bellew, J. Barney Sherry

The Day After(1909)

10min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.

The Greaser's Gauntlet(1908)

17min

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother bestows upon him her blessing, presenting him with a pair of gauntlets, upon the dexter wrist of which she has embroidered a Latin Cross.

The Criminal Hypnotist(1909)

10min | Crime

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Ingomar, the Barbarian(1908)

13min | Comedy

Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Nihilists(1905)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is assigned to commit an act of terror. Based on the play "Vera; or, The Nihilists" by Oscar Wilde.

A Trap for Santa Claus(1909)

16min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1909)

11min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The worlds first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

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