1909 Movies

Period piece debuting Matsunosuke Onoe

One of Oskar Messter’s earliest films. An outing with several horse-drawn sleighs and a snowball fight in the Grunewald forest. Also a pair of clowns...

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is al...

Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers t...

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 events of...

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one youn...

A snakedancer wiggles and whips an anaconda around on stage

The winner of a footrace celebrates with his family. To illustrate his achievement, he takes a few strides in the dining room. Caught up in the excite...

Yet another film adaptation of the renown 1874 French play "The Two Orphans" (Les Deux Orphelines) by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon, about two ad...

The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside Kimberly, S.A. Jobe's family are Boers with all the strange...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met...

An adaptation of Ivan Nikitin's poem 'Ukhar-kupets' for Pathé.

An item in the 24 Jul 1909 Moving Picture World called this film “a series of magic drawing executed by the fountain pen….[It] is interesting and amus...

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a differe...

If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story. If they have not, perhaps it will be a w...

Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.

Selection of scenes from Nikolay Gogol's comedy of the same name. Lost movie.

A comedy drama which clearly portrays the adventures of a country chap who falls into the hands of the servants of his city cousin, who has instructed...

Nick Carter serial, sequel of the successful original master series, "Nick Carter, le roi des détectives," launched in 1908 with 6 episodes. This spec...