Movies released in the Year 1895

Two dancers perform in succession facing a stationary camera. The first is in a diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended. She smiles, wearing butterfly wings on her back and the w...

This may well be the first sight gag in cinema history, and it's certainly one of the most famous - a gardener is watering the flowers; a young boy steps on the hose, thus blocking the flow of wate...

The 'plot' is outlined by the title: the film consists of a single shot of workers leaving the Lumiere factory, and the film would be of virtually no interest (except to students of late 19th centu...

Like all the early Lumiere Brothers shorts, this consists of just one shot, of Auguste Lumiere, his wife and baby daughter having breakfast. in a rural setting. In itself completely banal, the shot...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring i...