Louis Lumière Movies

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

A friendly card game goes sour fast.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau,...