Most Viewed Year 1900 - 19

In an arena, a Landes race scene with cows.

Southampton High Street, train view

Exercises and jumps on parallel bars.

Coolie Boys Diving for Coins positions a scene, popularised in early film generally, within a distinctly colonial context. As with similar films, it...

Mitchell & Kenyon.

There's an organ grinder on the stage, standing in front of a backdrop that's supposed to look like the street. Some young women come up and do a...

Cavalry cross the river in enormous number. Occasionally a horse stops to take a drink, and then walks on.

New Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their...

Variant titles from Biograph production logs indicate that the 15th Infantry was on the way to China. Other sources indicate that the regiment was...

Trains steam past a station.

Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly...

Gugusse and the Automaton (French: Gugusse et l'Automate), also known as The Clown and the Automaton, was an 1897 French short silent film directed...

A British battery emplacement fires a gun and the gun collapses; its wheels fall from the hillside as a contingent of Boers attack.

A dispatch rider gets through a Boer ambush.

At the opening of this picture, a couple are seen in dim outlines, spooning on a park bench. In comes a policeman, armed with a dark-lantern, which...

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

A succession of British soldiers are carried up a gangplank by stretcher-bearers from the quayside to a hospital ship at Durban; walking casualties...

A Skirmish with the Boers Near Kimberley by a Troop of Cavalry Scouts Attached to General French's Column. A staged attack by British troops in South...

Studies on human pathological locomotion.

A German warship.