The best movies 1909

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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.

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

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...

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his...

An early adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar.

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

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

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

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

A biographical two-reel series starring Joseph Kilgour as Washington. The first part, "Washington Under the British Flag" (released June 29), focused...

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...

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

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.

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...