1878
The Horse in Motion (US…Eadweard Muybridge)
1887
Woman Kicking (US…Eadweard Muybridge)
1888
Roundhay Garden Scene (UK…Louis Aime Augustin le Prince)
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (UK…Louis Aime Augustin le Prince)
1889
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses (UK…William Friese-Greene)
1891
Newark Athlete (US…William K.L.Dickson)
1892
Pauvre Pierrot (France…Émile Reynaud)
1893
Blacksmith Scene (US…William K.L.Dickson)
1894
Auteur d’un Cabine (France…Émile Reynaud)
1895
Annabelle’s Serpentine Dance (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)
L’Arrivée d’un train en Gare de la Ciotat (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)
L’Arroseur Arossé (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)
The Derby (UK…R.W.Paul)
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (US…Alfred Clark, Thomas A.Edison)
Sortie des Usines Lumière (France…Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)
Wintergartenprogramm (Germany…Max Skladanovsky)
1896
The Kiss (France…William Heise)
The Moon at One Metre (France…Georges Méliès)
Panorama du Grand Canal vu d’un bâteau (France…Alexandre Promio, Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière)
Three Burlesque Dancers (UK…Birt Acres)
1897
L’Affaire Dreyfus (France…Georges Méliès)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (US…Enoch Rector)
The Miller and the Sweep (UK…George A.Smith)
1898
The Corsican Brothers (UK…George A.Smith)
1899
A Kiss in the Tunnel (UK…George A.Smith)
A Ray of Sunshine After the Rain (US…Frederick Armitage)
Scenery from a Passing Train (France…Léon Gaumont)
1900
Grandma’s Reading Glasses (UK…George A.Smith)
Jeanne d’Arc (France…Georges Méliès)
The One Man Band (France…Georges Méliès)
The Spirit of His Forefathers (UK…anon)
A Storm at Sea (US…James M.White)
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong’s Elswick Works (UK…Sagar Mitchell, James Kenyon)
1901
Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinford (UK…Sagar Mitchell, James Kenyon)
The Big Swallow (UK…James Williamson)
Funeral Procession of Queen Victoria (UK…Cecil M.Hepworth)
History of a Crime (France…Ferdinand Zecca)
Quo Vadis? (France…Ferdinand Zecca)
Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (UK…R.W.Paul)
1902
Éruption Volcanique à la Martinique (France…Georges Méliès)
The Victims of Alcoholism (France…Ferdinand Zecca)
Le Voyage dans la Lune (France…Georges Méliès)
1903
Alice in Wonderland (UK…Percy Stow, Cecil M.Hepworth)
A Daring Daylight Burglary (UK…Frank Mottershaw)
The Great Train Robbery (US…Edwin S.Porter)
The Life of an American Fireman (US…Edwin S.Porter)
Mary Jane’s Mishap (UK…George A.Smith)
Le Mélomane (France…Georges Méliès)
The Sick Kitten (UK…George A.Smith)
1904
Balle Traversant une Bulle de Savon (France…Lucien Bull)
Japonaiseries (France…Gaston Velle)
Voyage à Travers Impossible (France…Georges Méliès)
1905
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (France…Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet)
Rescued by Rover (UK…Lewis Fitzhamon, Cecil M.Hepworth)
1906
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (US…Edwin S.Porter)
The Haunted House (France…Segundo de Chomon)
The Life of Charles Peace (UK…William Hagger)
A Policeman’s Tour of the World (France…Charles-Lucien Lepine)
The ? Motorist (UK…Walter R.Booth)
The Story of the Kelly Gang (Australia…Charles Tait)
La Vie du Christ (France…Alice Guy-Blaché)
1907
First Prize in Cello (France…Charles Pathé)
The Haunted Hotel (US…James Stuart Blackton)
The Horse That Bolted (France…Charles Pathé)
The Talisman or Sheep’s Foot (France…Albert Capellani)
Le Tunnel sous le Manche (France…Georges Méliès)
1908
The Adventures of Dollie (US…D.W.Griffith)
The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (France…André Calmettes, Charles le Borgy)
The Execution of Dorrega (Argentina…Mario Gallo)
Fantasmagorie (France…Emile Cohl)
Henry VIII (UK…Will Barker) LOST
El Hotel Electrico (Spain/France…Segundo de Chómon)
The Kiss of Judas (France…Armand Bour)
A Narrow Escape (France…Albert Capellani)
1909
L’Assammoir (France…Albert Capellani)
A Corner of Wheat (US…D.W.Griffith)
Les Joyeux Microbes (France…Emile Cohl)
The Smoke Fairy (US…James Stuart Blackton)
1910
The Abyss (Denmark…Urban Gad)
Agrippina (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)
Belshazzar’s Feast (France…Louis Feuillade)
The Birth of a Flower (UK…F.Percy Smith)
Frankenstein (US…J.Searle Dawley)
Les Hôtes de l’Air (France…Oliver Pike)
Lucrezia Borgia (Italy…Mario Caserini) LOST
A Tale of Loyal Retainers (Japan…Makio Shozo) LOST
White Fawn’s Devotion (US…James Young Deer)
The White Slave Trade (Denmark…August Blom)
1911
The Destiny of Mothers (France…Louis Feuillade)
The Fall of Troy (Italy…Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Giovanni Pastrone)
La Fiancée du Château Maudit (France…Albert Capellani)
How a Mosquito Operates (US…Winsor McKay)
L’Inferno (Italy… Francesco Bertolini, Alberto Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro)
The Lonedale Operator (US…D.W.Griffith)
Max Takes Tonic (France…Max Linder)
Les Misérables (France…Albert Capellani)
The Odyssey (Italy…Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro)
A Roman Orgy (France…Louis Feuillade)
Vanity Fair (US…Charles Kent)
1912
The Cameraman’s Revenge (Russia…Wladyslaw Starewicz)
The Conquest of the Pole (France…Georges Méliès)
A Cure for Pokeritis (US…Laurence Trimble)
The Cry of the Children (US…George Nichols)
Falling Leaves (US…Alice Guy-Blaché)
From the Manger to the Cross (US…Sidney Alcott)
The Gardener (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom) PARTIALLY LOST
The Girl and Her Trust (US…D.W.Griffith)
The Greater Love (US…Rollin S.Sturgeon)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (US…Harold M.Shore, Dorothy G.Shore)
The Lieutenant’s Last Fight (US…Thomas H.Ince)
Life of Villa (US…Raoul Walsh)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (US…D.W.Griffith)
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador (France…Léonce Perret)
The Painted Lady (US…D.W.Griffith)
Poor Jenny (Denmark…Urban Gad)
Queen Elizabeth (France…Louis Mercanton, Henri Desfontaines)
Quo Vadis? (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)
Richard III (US…James Keane, André Calmettes)
Der Schatten des Meers (Germany…Curt Stark) PARTIALLY LOST
Secrets of the Soul (Italy…Vincenzo Denizot)
The Water Nymph (US…Mack Sennett)
1913
Atlantis (Denmark…August Blom)
Au Ravissante des Dames (Belgium…Alfred Machin)
Bangville Police (US…Harry Lehrman)
The Bartered Bride (Czechoslovakia…Max Urban)
The Battle at Elderbrush Gulch (US…D.W.Griffith)
David Copperfield (UK…Thomas Bentley)
The Derby (Topical Budget prod.) (UK…anon)
L’Enfant de Paris (France…Léonce Perret)
The Evidence of the Film (US…Edwin Thanhouser, Lawrence Marston)
Fantomas (France…Louis Feuillade)
Des Pfarrers Töchterlein (Germany…Adolf Gärtner)
Germinal (France…Albert Capellani)
The Glue (France…Alberto Capellani)
The Gusher (US…Mack Sennett)
Hamlet (UK…Cecil M.Hepworth)
Ingeborg Holm (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)
The Insects’ Christmas (Russia…Wladyslaw Starewicz)
King Harishchandra (India…D.G.Phalke)
The Last Fight (US…Ralph Ince)
Matrimony’s Speed Limit (US…Alice Guy-Blaché)
Maudite soit la guerre (Belgium…Alfred Machin)
Old Scrooge (UK…Leedham Bantock)
Protea (France…Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
Richard Wagner (Germany…Carl Fröhlich)
The Student of Prague (Germany…Stellan Rye, Paul Wegener)
Suspense (US…Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber)
Sylvi (Finland…Teuvo Puro)
Traffic in Souls (US…George Loane Tucker)
Who is Coletti? (Germany…Max Mack)
1914
Angels (Denmark…Urban Gad)
The Bargain (US…Reginald Barker, William S.Hart)
Les bords de la Tamise d’Oxford a Windsor (France…Sul Tamigi)
Cabiria (Italy…Giovanni Pastrone)
Caius Julius Caesar (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)
Child of the Big City (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
The Exploits of Elaine (US…Louis Gasnier, George B.Seitz)
Den Fremmede (Denmark…Vilhelm Glückstadt)
Gertie the Dinosaur (US…Winsor McCay)
Home Sweet Home (US…D.W.Griffith)
In the Clutches of the Gang (US…George Nichols) FRAGMENTS
In the Land of the War Canoes (US…Edward S.Curtis)
Judith of Bethulia (US…D.W.Griffith)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (US…Henry Lehrman)
The Life of the Lay Preacher (Denmark…Holger-Madsen)
Lost in the Dark (Italy…Nino Martoglio) LOST
Mabel’s Blunder (US…Mabel Normand)
Mabel’s Strange Predicament (US…Mabel Normand)
Making a Living (US…Henry Lehrman)
The Mysterious X (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)
The Old Docker (Spain…Armand Guerra)
Opium Dreams (Denmark…Holger Madsen)
The Perils of Pauline (US…Louis Gasnier, Donald Mackenzie) PARTIALLY LOST
Photo Drama of Creation (US…Charles Taze Rusell)
The Squaw Man (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Tess of the Storm County (US…Edwin S.Porter)
Tillie’s Punctured Romance (US…Mack Sennett)
The White Rose (Germany…Urban Gad)
The Wishing Ring (US…Maurice Tourneur)
1915
After Death (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Assunta Spina (Italy…Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena)
The Birth of a Nation (US…D.W.Griffith)
Burlesque on Carmen (US…Charles Chaplin)
Carmen (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Carmen (US…Raoul Walsh) LOST
Ceux de Chez-Nous (France…Sacha Guitry)
The Champion (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Cheat (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Children of the Age (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Daydreams (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Envher (Denmark…Vilhelm Glückstadt)
Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)
A Fool There Was (US…Frank Powell)
A Free Ride (US…anon)
The Golden Chance (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Hearts and Planets (US…Mack Sennett)
His New Job (US…Charles Chaplin)
Hypocrites (US…Lois Weber)
Inspiration (US…George Foster Platt) LOST
The Italian (US…Reginald Barker)
Jane Shore (UK…Bert Haldane)
The Penitentes (US…Jack Conway) LOST
Pool Sharks (US…Edwin Middleton)
Regeneration (US…Raoul Walsh)
The Tramp (US…Charles Chaplin)
Les Vampires (France…Louis Feuillade)
Work (US…Charles Chaplin)
1916
The Aryan (US…Thomas H.Ince) LOST
The Battle of the Somme (UK …anon)
Behind the Screen (US…Charles Chaplin)
Blind Justice (Denmark…Benjamin Christensen)
Cenere (Italy…Febo Mari)
Civilization (US…Thomas H.Ince, Raymond B.West, Reginald Barker)
The Curse of Quon Gwon (US…Marion Wong)
Daughter of the Gods (US…Herbert Brenon) LOST
The Devil’s Needle (US…Chester Withey)
The Dying Swan (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Easy Street (US…Charles Chaplin)
The End of the World (Denmark…August Blom)
The Fire (Italy…Giovanni Pastrone)
The Floorwalker (US…Charles Chaplin)
Le Folie de Docteur Tube (France…Abel Gance)
Hell’s Hinges (US…Charles Swickard)
His Picture in the Papers (US…John Emerson)
Intolerance (US…D.W.Griffith)
Joan the Woman (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Judex (France…Louis Feuillade)
A Life for a Life (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Manhattan Madness (US…Allan Dwan)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (US…John Emerson)
The Ocean Waif (France…Alice Guy)
One a.m. (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Pawnshop (US…Charles Chaplin)
La Peine du Talion (France…Louis Feuillade) PARTIALLY LOST
The Queen of Spades (Russia…Yakov Protazanov)
The Ragged Princess (US…John G.Adolfi) LOST
The Return of Draw Egan (US…William S.Hart)
The Rink (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Germany…Richard Oswald)
Thais (Italy…Anton Giulio Bragaglia)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (US…Stuart Paton)
War Brides (US…Herbert Brenon)
Where are My Children? (US…Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber)
1917
The Adventurer (US…Charles Chaplin)
El Apostol (Argentina…Quirino Cristiani)
The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (UK…Geoffrey Malins)
The Butcher Boy (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)
Cleopatra (US…J.Gordon Edwards) FRAGMENTS
The Cure (US…Charles Chaplin)
Father Sergius (USSR…Yakov Protazanov)
For Happiness (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
The Girl from Marsh Croft (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)
The Honor System (US…Raoul Walsh) LOST
The Immigrant (US…Charles Chaplin)
The King of Paris (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
The Man Without a Country (US…Ernest C.Warde)
The Narrow Trail (US…William S.Hart)
Poor Little Rich Girl (US…Maurice Tourneur)
Raffles (US…George Irving)
Rapsodia Satanica (Italy…Nino Oxilia)
Revolutionary (Russia…Evgenii Bauer)
Satan Triumphant (Russia…Yakov Protazanov)
Straight Shooting (US…John Ford)
A Tale of Two Cities (US…Frank Lloyd)
Terje Vigen (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)
Thomas Graal’s Best Film (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)
A Trip Through China (US…Benjamin Brodsky)
Wild and Woolly (US…John Emerson)
1918
The Blue Bird (US…Maurice Tourneur)
The Bond (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Count of Monte Cristo (France…Henri Pouctal)
La Dixième Symphonie (France…Abel Gance)
A Dog’s Life (US…Charles Chaplin)
Fabiola (Italy…Enrico Guazzoni)
The Floor Below (US…Clarence Badger)
Fyrvaktarens Dotter (Sweden…Georg af Klercker)
Hearts of the World (US…D.W.Griffith)
Hell Bent (US…John Ford)
I Don’t Want to be a Man (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)
Johanna Enlists (US…William Desmond Taylor)
Lady of the Dugout (US…W.S.Van Dyke II)
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (UK…Maurice Elvey) UNRELEASED
The Man With Crooked Eyes (Portugal…José Leitão de Barros) PARTIALLY LOST
Mickey (US…F.Richard Jones, James Young)
Out of the Inkwell (US…Dave Fleischer)
The Outlaw and His Wife (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)
Shifting Sands (US…Albert Parker)
Shoulder Arms (US…Charles Chaplin)
Die Sieger (Germany…Rudolf Biebrach)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (US…Winsor McKay)
Stella Maris (US…Marshall Neilan)
Thomas Graal’s Best Child (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)
Tih Minh (France…Louis Feuillade)
A Trip to Mars (Denmark…Holger-Madsen)
The Whispering Chorus (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
1919
Back Stage (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)
Barrabas (France…Louis Feuillade)
Blind Husbands (US…Erich Von Stroheim)
Broken Blossoms (US…D.W.Griffith)
Bumping into Broadway (US…H.M.Walker)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Germany…Robert Wiene)
Daddy-Long-Legs (US…Marshall Neilan)
A Day’s Pleasure (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Doll (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)
Don’t Change Your Husband (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
Dunungen (Sweden…Ivan Hedqvist)
Eerie Tales (Germany…Richard Oswald)
En Dirigeable sur les champs de bataille (France…Lucien le Sainte)
Exemplo Regenerador (Brazil…Jose Medina)
La Fête Espagnole (France…Germaine Dulac)
The Garage (US…Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle)
The Grey Motor Car (Mexico…Enrique Rosas, Joaquin Coss)
J’Accuse (France…Abel Gance)
Kaliya Marden (India…Dhundiraj Govind Phalke)
Karin Ingmarsdotter (Sweden…Victor Sjöstrom)
The Lost Battallion (US…Burton L.King)
Madame Dubarry (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)
Male and Female (US…Cecil B.de Mille)
The Miracle Man (US…George Loane Tucker) FRAGMENTS
Nerven (Germany…Robert Reinert)
A Norway Lass (Sweden…John W.Brunius)
Opium (Germany…Robert Reinert)
The Oyster Princess (Germany…Ernst Lubitsch)
The Pimp (Germany…Karl Grüne)
The President (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)
The Red Lantern (US…Albert Capellani)
A Romance of Happy Valley (US…D.W.Griffith)
Rose-France (France…Marcel l’Herbier)
Satanas (Germany…Friedrich W.Murnau) LOST
A Sentimental Bloke (Australia…Raymond Longford)
Sir Arne’s Treasure (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)
The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Sweden…Mauritz Stiller)
South (UK…Frank Hurley)
Die Spinnen (Germany…Fritz Lang)
Sunnyside (US…Charles Chaplin)
The Tantalizing Fly (US…Dave Fleischer)
True Heart Susie (US…D.W.Griffith)
Do you know where I can see “Leisurely Pedestrians” from 1889?
you stated for 1917 there was a film
“Father Sergius (USSR…Yakov Protazanov)”
my concern is: did USSR existed in 1917?
As wikipedia knows: it existed only between 1922 and 1991.
This means: it was constituted by Lenin 2 years before he was murdered by Stalin.
[…] Movie Timelines (at Wonders in the Dark): A good series of chronological year-by-year checklists here. All of the timelines can be accessed about three-quarters down the page on the blogroll at right, but one wishes that at the end of each timeline the structurally more sensible and easier option of being able to go forward or backward to the next or previous decade was offered. Good lists, though. […]
Surely the 1913 full length feature film ‘Raja Harishchandra’, made in India that year deserves a note in the 1913 section of the timeline?
10ks for your effort in making all this categories and movie lists.. 🙂