American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William and hi...

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the thea...

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be post...

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

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 pl...

“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary,...

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the st...

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...

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, a...

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals s...

A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion...

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous br...

A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes int...

Two stockbrokers love the same girl.

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another wors...

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to l...