Most Viewed Year 1895

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.