Most Viewed Year 1906

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

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...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

In the beginning of the film, a streetcar passes in front of the camera position. The camera starts to move, indicating that it was on a streetcar...

Suffering from unrequited love, Max hangs himself from a tree, and ends up hanging for hours while local townspeople squabble over whose...

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.

Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and...

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

A young couple appear to be perfectly happy and in love, but one day the woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She seeks out his...

Cast fishing in Hilo.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

In 1906 a cameraman boarded a streetcar in Boston and rode around the city, wherever that vehicle took him. The film is exceptional, because it shows...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.