The best movies 1905

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading...

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to...

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

A woman performs the tango.

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

A portrait of the Dam family.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

Various shots around Washington, D.C., on Roosevelt's 1905 inauguration, March 4th. View of the Capitol crowds, and the oath of office. Followed by a...

A film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film, a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

A millionaire girl publishes a personal ad wishing to marry a young, gallant man, using the Park's Swiss Cowshop as the meeting point.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

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

Lost film in which we see the football basque team Athletic Club of Bilbao.