1905 Movies

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil Hippodrome.

Chasing after a bicycle thief.

Shot in Yunnan, China, simply shows 2 men smoking.

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race t...

“The tri-car has reached such a very high state of reliability and all-round efficiency that to the man of limited means who cannot afford a car and y...

Views include the bridge of Kassir-el-Nil, the Sphinx, the Pyramids approached by train, and the Nile.

This exquisitely coloured film features a series of models rotating slowly in front of the camera, allowing close-up views of their various hairstyles...

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

A husband tries to boss his servants and ends up in the dough.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

Short documentary about this Valencian tradition directed by Ángel García Cardona.

A millionaire solicits girl suitors for marriage.

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

A train ride of New York.

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevel...

A couple of young boys clamber over a fence and break into the hen coop. They steal some eggs and a fat chicken. The adults are after them, but the bo...

A gang of child thieves take one away and hand him over to other gypsies who dress him in rags and cruelly mistreat him. The boy wants to escape and t...