The best movies 1909

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

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

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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...

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...

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

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

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...

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots...

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...

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath...

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head,...

The film, produced by Filoteo Alberini and released in 1909 is a short drama about a young boy who is killed during the Spedizione dei Mille, a...

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

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

This darling compilation of Feuillade's 'Le Printemps' series embodies the joyous feeling of dancing out of winter into the spring.

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

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.

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...

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...

This Spanish short film tells the story of Guzmán el Bueno, a hero of the Reconquista.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

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

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.