The best movies 1909

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

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.

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 young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His...

FRAGMENT. Young Hansen is deeply in love with his boss’s daughter and regularly meets with her in secret. One day, the boss catches them and...

When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away...

The only known moving-image footage of the author, filmed at his home, Stormfield, in Redding, Connecticut. The silent short shows Twain walking...

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

Set in antiquity, the drama follows a woman who helps another woman escape from captivity and is condemned to crucifixion, staging themes of...

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

Ruy Blas, one of Don Salluste's lackeys, falls in love with the young Queen of Spain, Maria de Neubourg. Spurned by the Queen, Don Salluste takes...

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...

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die....

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...

A husband suspects his wife of an affair. The wife's cousin borrows a shawl to meet her lover in the garden. The husband spies the couple embracing,...

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

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.

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

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...

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

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.

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