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1900s American Movies

Public list by WPS with 243 movies or TV shows/series

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Mad Love(1995)

PG-13
| 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.

Directed by Antonia Bird - With Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Kevin Dunn, ...
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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.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter - With Alfred C. Abadie, Broncho Billy Anderson, Justus D. Barnes, Marie Murray, J. Barney Sherry, Morgan Jones, ...

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

A Corner in Wheat(1909)

NR
| 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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson, W. Chrystie Miller, ...

Ben Hur(1907)

15min | Adventure, Drama, History
2.3/5 (with 12 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
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Electrocuting an Elephant(1903)

1min | Documentary
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

What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City(1901)

1min | Documentary, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 23 votes)

A street level view from the sidewalk, looking along the length of 23rd Street. Following actuality footage of pedestrians and street traffic, the actors, a man in summer attire and a woman in an ankle-length dress, walk toward the camera.

Directed by George S. Fleming, Edwin Stanton Porter - With Alfred C. Abadie

The Lonely Villa(1909)

G
| 8min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 32 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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan, Adele DeGarde, Charles Avery, Clara T. Bracy, ...

Those Awful Hats(1909)

NR
| 2min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Mack Sennett, Flora Finch, Linda Arvidson, John R. Cumpson, George M. Gebhardt, Robert Harron, ...

The Night Before Christmas(1905)

8min | Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

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.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

Sherlock Holmes Baffled(1900)

1min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

Directed by Arthur Marvin

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend(1906)

6min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 36 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.

Directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Edwin Stanton Porter
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The Sealed Room(1909)

NR
| 11min | Thriller, Drama, Horror, History
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Linda Arvidson, ...

The Violin Maker of Cremona(1909)

10min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Harry Solter, Marion Leonard, Charles Avery, Clara T. Bracy, ...

Jack and the Beanstalk(1902)

10min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
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.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter, George S. Fleming

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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Kate Bruce, Adele DeGarde, Gladys Egan, Florence Lawrence, Mary Pickford, Frank Powell, ...

Edgar Allan Poe(1909)

7min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Herbert Yost, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, Anita Hendrie, Arthur V. Johnson, James Kirkwood, ...

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre(1901)

2min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.

Directed by Frederick S. Armitage

The Haunted Hotel(1907)

7min | Comedy, Animation
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 Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period(1909)

11min

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. Cromwell is charmed by the girl and gives her his signet ring. By chance the child is the daughter of one of the soldiers and gives the death disc to her father, because she thinks it's pretty. The child is returned home to her mother, who learns of her husband's pending execution and of the power of the ring. She rushes to the place of execution and saves her husband by producing the ring.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With George Nichols, Marion Leonard, Edith Haldeman, Frank Powell, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson, ...

The Adventures of Dollie(1908)

NR
| 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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, Billy Bitzer - With Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan, Charles Inslee

The Thieving Hand(1908)

6min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', where he buys him a new arm. The recipient soon discovers that this new arm has a will of its own - causing him considerable embarrassment.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton - With Paul Panzer

The Voice of the Violin(1909)

NR
| 16min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his anger he joins a communist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he tries to stop the plan.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Frank Powell, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, John R. Cumpson, ...

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy(1909)

NR
| 5min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton - With Paul Panzer, Gladys Hulette

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show(1902)

2min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

The Pirate's Gold(1908)

NR
| 16min | Action

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been infested with a band of gold-thirsty pirates, who pillaged every ship that came their way. Having successfully perpetuated one of their nefarious exploits, they are struck by a storm and forced to put out from their floundering vessel in a small yawl, in which they place a chest of valuables, for the shore.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With George M. Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson, Charles Inslee, Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence, George Nichols, ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1909)

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

The worlds first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Directed by Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton - With Walter Ackerman, Dolores Costello, Helene Costello, Maurice Costello, Julia Swayne Gordon, Gladys Hulette, ...

The 'Teddy' Bears(1907)

14min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

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 while hunting, an event which led to the popularization of the teddy bear. Goldilocks goes to sleep in the bears' home after watching six teddy bears dance and do acrobatics, viewing them through a knothole in the wall. When she is awoken by the returning bear family, they give chase through the woods, but she runs to the aid of the Old Rough Rider, who saves her.

Directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Edwin Stanton Porter

President McKinley Taking the Oath(1901)

1min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 12 votes)

President McKinley taking the Oath.

Directed by Thomas Edison - With William McKinley

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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Florence Lawrence, Frank Powell, Owen Moore, James Kirkwood, Arthur V. Johnson, Alfred Paget, ...
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