The best movies 1909

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots...

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

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

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...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray West Point into the hands of the British, and to...

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii):...

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

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...

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

Adaptation of the eponymous play.

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she...

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

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested....

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...

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

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...

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

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

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

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

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.