Movies by Year - 1908 (23)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Adventures of Dollie, TheOn a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing. A gypsy basket peddler happens along, and is angered when the mother refuses to buy his wares. He attacks mother and daught | 1908 | D.W. Griffith, G.W. Bitzer | Action, Short | 5.7 (801 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| An Awful MomentAs a judge passes sentence on a man, a gypsy woman in the audience vehemently protests, and she has to be physically removed from the courtroom. Soon afterwards, the judge returns home, and enjoys some time with his wife and child. B | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Short | 4.4 (136 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Balked At The AltarArtemisia Sophia Stebbins was a lovelorn maiden who had delved deep into the mysteries of "Three Weeks," as well as being conversant with the teachings of Laura Jean Libby. Her one hobby was to possess a hubby. Many there were whom s | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Comedy | 4.8 (161 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Betrayed By A HandprintMrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number of the guests, among whom is | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Crime | 5.1 (166 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Black Viper, TheA thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnappin | 1908 | D.W. Griffith, Wallace McCutcheon Jr. | Short, Drama | 4.6 (156 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Calamitous Elopement, AA young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Comedy | 4.6 (204 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Call of the Wild, TheGeorge Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agen | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Action | 5.2 (103 votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| Fatal Hour, ThePong Lee, a Mephistophelian, saffron-skinned varlet, has for some time carried on this atrocious female white slave traffic, in which sinister business he was assisted by a stygian whelp, by name Hendricks. Pong writes Hendricks that | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Crime | 5.5 (80 votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
| Father Gets In The Game"You have got to keep up with the bandwagon or quit." This never impressed old Wilkins so forcibly as when his son and daughter give him the go-by, stamping him as a "has-been," and away out of the game. Even Mrs. Wilkins, who is as | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Comedy | 5.2 (119 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| First Cigar [Le premier cigare d'un collégien]A well-grown boy sees a box of his father's cigars, and pockets one. He goes downstairs, and no sooner is he out of the building when he joyously sticks the cheroot into his mouth. Feeling like a man, he goes to a nearby café, orders | 1908 | Louis J. Gasnier | Short, Comedy | 5.8 (147 votes) | 5 | 20211228 |
| Her First AdventureA father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter wanders off, attracted by the music from a pair of gypsies performing in the street | 1908 | Wallace McCutcheon | Drama, Short | 5.3 (67 votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
| In a Difficult Position [Mon pantalon est décousu]It is just a few moments before the ball, and the beau, by his strenuousness in dressing, has torn a huge rent in the seat of his only pair of trousers. Hastily seizing a needle and thread, he tries to sew them while on his person, a | 1908 | André Heuzé | Short, Comedy | 5.9 (77 votes) | 4 | 20211228 |
| Last Cartridge, An Incident Of The Sepoy Rebellion In India, TheCaught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter lest she be taken. This silent film features an original, scene-specific piano score compiled from period appropriate photoplay music. | 1908 | Unknown | Short, Drama | 4.8 (86 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Money MadThe central figure is an old miser, who in parsimonionsness is a Harpahon. And, like Fosene, boarded his money in a secret cellar, where he met his death. We first find him begging on the. street, a young girl passes and drops her pu | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (118 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Romance of a JewessThis early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family. | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Short | 5.3 (115 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Sculptor's Nightmare, TheAt a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends th | 1908 | Wallace McCutcheon | Comedy, Short | 5.4 (117 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Song Of The Shirt, TheStruggling with poverty and the declining health of a relative, a young woman struggles to find employment. | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Short | 5.6 (127 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Taming of the Shrew, TheBased on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior. | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (142 votes) | 17 | 20211228 |
| Tempest, TheProspero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to cr | 1908 | Percy Stow | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 5.9 (258 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Tempest, TheProspero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to cr | 1908 | Percy Stow | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 5.9 (258 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Troubles of a Grass Widower [Vive la vie de garçon]A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to himself. But he quickly discovers that even the most basic domestic chores can be fraught | 1908 | Max Linder | Short, Comedy | 6.2 (378 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Unwilling Chiropodist [Pédicure par amour]Her husband being at his office, madame bids the chiropodist come and attend to her aching feet, and the specialist is seen entering the room to fulfill his duty. Madame's lover, however, entering at that moment, Mr. "Pedicure" is se | 1908 | Charles Decroix | Short, Comedy | 6.7 (9 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Where Breakers RoarAn early Biograph short in which two separate sequences of events collide and the leading man must save his lady from the villain. The first storyline involves a group of young adult beach-goers, particularly focusing on one couple i | 1908 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Short | 5.4 (60 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |