Most Viewed Year 1897

A Japanese family having tea.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.