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The Rough Riders
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1890sThe story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Das tanzende Wien
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sA cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
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Flesh and the Devil
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sPassion ran like wine in their blood! — As lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home following completion of their military training, Leo sees stunning Felicitas at the railway station and, mesmerized by her beauty, is smitten. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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Across the Pacific
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1890sFollowing the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
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The Gold Rush
Alaska Yukon The 1890sThe World's Greatest Laughing Picture! — A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He soon gets mixed up with some burly characters, falls in love with the beautiful Georgia, and tries to win her heart with his singular charm.
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Three Lives
The 1890s The 1880sBakhva Pulava, a merchant from Poti fells in love with a poor tailor woman named Esma and marries her. At the same time, enchanted by her beauty, another man named Jeremiah Tsarba decides to kidnap her. When Esma refuses to share bed with him Jeremiah mercilessly kills her and when faced by accusations avoids punishment with the help of Valida, an influential nobleman’s daughter. Bakhva Pulava makes a decision to take justice into to his hands.
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Zaza
🇫🇷 France The 1890sZaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
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Bella Donna
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Love One Another
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890sBased on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
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Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes
The 1900s The 1890sThis early film biography of the founder of modern Zionism depicts a young Herzl learning about Jewish persecution throughout the ages and developing his theory of political Zionism, which he saw as the only solution to anti-semitism.
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Manolescu's Memoirs
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Harakiri
🇯🇵 Japan The 1890sThe daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
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The Dreyfus Affair
The 1890sThe first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to a historical event in France decades earlier in which a Jewish military officer was discharged for bribery, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
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Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike
The 1890sNo Overview
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The Surrender of Tournavos
🇬🇷 Greece The 1890sThree military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.
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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
Nevada The 1890sThis legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch Rector recorded the entire fight, simultaneously creating the world's first known feature film, as the resulting footage lasted over 90 minutes in length. About a quarter of the film survives today. Written by Mark Toscano.
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Naval Combat in Greece
🇬🇷 Greece The 1890sAn officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
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Oldest surviving cricket film.
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The Haverstraw Tunnel
New York The 1890sA train travels along the tracks of the West Shore railroad in Rockland county. It goes through the Haverstraw Tunnel and out the other side.
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Demolition of a Wall
The 1890sAuguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
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Partie d'écarté
The 1890sThree men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.
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McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
Ohio The 1890s“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary, who hands him a telegram, which he reads with apparent satisfaction. The characteristic walk and gestures of Mr. McKinley will be noted with interest by his friends.” (AMB Picture Catalogue)
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The Sprinkler Sprinkled
The 1890sA 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 and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.
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Baby's Meal
The 1890sA father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.
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Fishing for Goldfish
The 1890sA man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with his bare hands.
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Jumping the Blanket
The 1890sFour men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump into the blanket.
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Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
🇫🇷 France The 1890sPedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.
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Boat Leaving the Port
The 1890sIn very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
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The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
🇫🇷 France The 1890sDown the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
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Araby
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890sBased on the story "Araby" in the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.
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Dead for a Dollar
New Mexico The 1890sA famed bounty hunter runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before, while on a mission to find and return the wife of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico.
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