Edison Studios Movies

  • 1903
    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    7.0051903HD

    After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

    The Great Train Robbery
  • 1910
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6.0381910HD

    Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

    Frankenstein
  • 1912
    The Crime of Carelessness

    The Crime of Carelessness

    The Crime of Carelessness

    5.21912HD

    Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.

    The Crime of Carelessness
  • 1907
    The 'Teddy' Bears

    The 'Teddy' Bears

    The 'Teddy' Bears

    5.5631907HD

    A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

    The 'Teddy' Bears
  • 1901
    Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

    Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

    Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

    3.91901HD

    Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't...

    Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
  • 1904
    Maniac Chase

    Maniac Chase

    Maniac Chase

    5.9171904HD

    A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

    Maniac Chase
  • 1912
    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

    51912HD

    A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
  • 1917
    Friends, Romans and Leo

    Friends, Romans and Leo

    Friends, Romans and Leo

    3.81917HD

    The plot and setting is actually a bit like Keaton's The Three Ages will be in 1923. But less sophisticated: The Roman Emperor Mulius Caesar borrows...

    Friends, Romans and Leo
  • 1905
    How Jones Lost His Roll

    How Jones Lost His Roll

    How Jones Lost His Roll

    51905HD

    Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

    How Jones Lost His Roll
  • 1897
    Return of Lifeboat

    Return of Lifeboat

    Return of Lifeboat

    4.11897HD

    Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

    Return of Lifeboat
  • 1891
    Men Boxing

    Men Boxing

    Men Boxing

    4.11891HD

    Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

    Men Boxing
  • 1901
    Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce

    Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce

    Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce

    4.41901HD

    The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly...

    Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
  • 1895
    A Frontier Scene

    A Frontier Scene

    A Frontier Scene

    01895HD

    A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

    A Frontier Scene
  • 1910
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.41910HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

    A Christmas Carol
  • 1906
    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

    6.3511906HD

    A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
  • 1903
    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    The Gay Shoe Clerk

    5.491903HD

    A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

    The Gay Shoe Clerk
  • 1900
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    5.61900HD

    "Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

    The Kiss
  • 1918
    The Unbeliever

    The Unbeliever

    The Unbeliever

    6.11918HD

    A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his...

    The Unbeliever
  • 1897
    The Hanging of William Carr

    The Hanging of William Carr

    The Hanging of William Carr

    01897HD

    The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

    The Hanging of William Carr
  • 1915
    Through Turbulent Waters

    Through Turbulent Waters

    Through Turbulent Waters

    01915HD

    The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson,...

    Through Turbulent Waters