The best movies 1909

Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...

Fatima and Sister Anne have seemed alive in their minds, from the moment Fatima, in her mother's lonely hut, accepts an invitation to visit...

Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the...

William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen,...

Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

A young shepherd and servant girl are separated when she is sold into slavery and taken to Alexandria. Far from home, she struggles with the loss of...

Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to...

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

Flower petals in the background create different shapes while actress Mary Cleo Tarlarini salutes the audience.

Monsieur de La Valette, arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a conspirator, escapes from prison thanks to his wife's plan.

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

There have been numerous studies of plants and flowers presented to the public, but none which exhibit the perfection of stereoscopic detail. The...

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

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

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the...

Directed by either Louis Feuillade (atributed) or by Etienne Arnaud (atributed), according to the Gaumont archives.

Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil and falling into a pit on a construction site.

Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the various pieces of ware are in reality formed of living...

Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because...

Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti. He is organizing a Christmas party but it ends up being a total mess. He buys a Christmas tree,...

Felipe I el Hermoso provokes with his behavior the madness of his wife, Juana de Castilla.

La Revolución de Mayo (in English: May Revolution) is an Argentine silent movie premiered in 1909. As the name denotes, it is focused on the...

This Spanish short film tells the story of Guzmán el Bueno, a hero of the Reconquista.

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El...

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

The story of Vicente López y Planes writing the national anthem of Argentina.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Film about this character born in 1818, who was the son of the general Juan José Viamonte and was shot by Rosario troops on September 16, 1940.