An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...