Most Viewed Year 1900 - 21

It's a demolition derby, as two giant industrial chimneys come crashing down to earth. Although this is dynamite footage, no explosives are used -...

Victorian filmmakers loved few sights more than crashing waves. Who those filmmakers were in this particular case is not documented, but they have...

This film title is almost, though not quite, false advertising. There's certainly a gale, and a wrecked ship, but the one didn't cause the other....

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.

A Boer throws a bomb into the British Red Cross tent and wounds a nurse.

A man exchanges shoe blacking for his friend's soap.

A black and white silent film with a descriptive title.

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

A couple is attacked by warriors.

Lumière short on the 1900 World's Fair

Hepworth title C.I.V. Procession: Cyclists and Infantry, catalogue no. 158 ("In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the...

A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of...

Third of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

Jeanne Chasles dances for the presentation of the Phono-Cinema-Theatre.

Footage of a parade party in the Netherlands.

Early film adaptation of The Prodigal Son.

Footage showing Arab riders.

Footage from the Boer War.