The best movies 1909

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an...

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 mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

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...

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...

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...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

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...

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen,...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office.

A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girl because it is in a strategic position but she sends a pigeon with a message to the...

A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

Flower petals in the background create different shapes while actress Mary Cleo Tarlarini salutes the audience.

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.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

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

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...

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

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...