A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses)in Darke County, Ohio. Nevertheless, she was a staple in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and similar wild west companies. Because of her diminutive stature, she was billed as "Little Sure Shot." The man assisting her is this appearance is probably her husband, Frank E. Butler. Annie had outshot Butler (a famous dead-eye marksman himself) in a shooting contest in the 1880's. Instead of nursing his bruised ego because he had been throughly outgunned by a woman, Butler fell in love, married Little Sure Shot, and became her manager.

Directed by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist, this is believed to be the first cat ever filmed in cinematic history. Jules Marey created the chronophotographic gun in 1882, a device which looked like a short barrelled shotgun with a magazine on top. It was capable of taking twelve consecutive frames a second. He used this to study various animals, the most famous study in what was called Marey’s ‘animated zoo’, was the one involving a cat which was dropped from a height of a few feet in order to see if it always landed on its feet.

The first travelling shot.

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water. They bob up and down in the water before swimming out of the scene. Once the couple have gone a man sails out in a boat.

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearance before a motion picture camera 'Buffalo Dance' features genuine members of the Sioux Tribe dressed in full war paint and costume! The dancers are believed to be veteran members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Filmed again at the Black Maria studios by both Dickson and Heise the 'Buffalo Dance' warriors were named as Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse. Its quite strange seeing these movies at first they all stand around waiting to begin and as they start some of the dancers look at the camera in an almost sad way at having lost their way of life.

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways. The first version features a carriage drawn by one horse, while in the second version the carriage is drawn by two horses, and there is no carriage at all in the third version. The clothing style is also different between the three versions, demonstrating the different seasons in which each was filmed. This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.

Richie franarres sine penge på en pokerhjemmeside. Siden ejes af spillemogulen Ivan Block, og Richie rejser til Costa Rica for at give ham ren besked. I stedet forføres han af Block's overdådige livsstil og løfter om hurtige penge. Block tager Richie under sine vinger, og snart kan Richie leve sine drømme ud. Han ved ikke, at FBI har kig på Block - og at Block pønser på at give dem Richie i stedet.

De tumpede teenagere Bill og Ted skal bestå en historieeksamen for at klare gymnasiet. Det ser sort ud, indtil de to drengerøve bliver kontaktet af Rufus, der fortæller at hele verdens fremtid afhænger af succes i den kommende eksamen. Han låner gutterne en tidsmaskine, så de kan skippe bøger og opleve historien ved selvsyn.

På sit dødsleje udtaler rigmanden og mediemogulen Charles Foster Kane ordene 'Rosebud'. Journalisten Jerry Thompson bliver sendt ud for at finde ud af, hvad de sidste ord fra den store mand betyder. Thompson interviewer venner, familie og forretningsforbindelser og et fantastisk og tragisk liv rulles op.

Charlotte er i Tokyo med sin mand John, der er fotograf og travlt optaget af arbejde. Charlotte tilbringer derfor det meste af tiden alene på hotellet og hér møder hun skuespilleren Bob Harris der er i Tokyo for at indspille en whiskyreklame. Han har fået en særdeles lukrativ kontrakt, men han er udmattet og træt af det hele – ikke mindst konen, der ringer til ham flere gange dagligt fra Los Angeles for at høre hans mening om indretningen af deres hus.

I den nærmeste fremtid forsøger en gruppe krigsjournalister at overleve, mens de rapporterer sandheden, da USA står på randen af ​​borgerkrig

Efter flere måneder uden en eneste anholdelse i hendes datters mordsag tager Mildred Hayes sagen i egen hånd ved at leje tre store reklameskilte i udkanten af byen med en besked rettet mod byens ærede politimester - kun med en eskalering til følge.

En ny trussel nærmer sig i efterkrigstidens Japan: Godzilla. En forhenværende kamikazepilot tvinges til at tage kampen op.

Da Mahatma Gandhi i 1948 bliver skudt ned af en attentatmand, mister det forrige århundrede en af sine største personligheder. Livet igennem kæmper Gandhi mod undertrykkelse og for Indiens selvstændighed, og hans kampmidler er utraditionelle og frem for alt uvoldelige. 'Gandhi' blev belønnet med hele otte Oscars - bl.a. som årets bedste film. Ben Kingsley modtog en statuette for sin præstation som Gandhi.

Efter at have stjålet en bil og impuls-dræbt en motorcykelbetjent, er Michael eftersøgt at politiet. Med sin amerikanske kæreste planlægger han at flygte til Italien, mens nettet strammes omkring ham.

Marvels univers strækker sig endnu længere ud i rummet når vovehalsen og eventyreren Peter Quill stjæler en mystisk kugle og bliver mål for en nådesløs dusørjagt. For at undslippe fjenden indgår han en modvillig våbenhvile med den skydeglade vaskebjørn Rocket, træ-mennesket Groot, lejemorderen Gamora og den hævntørstige Drax. Sammen kæmper de en storslået kamp som vil afgøre hele galaksens skæbne.

Fuldstændig ureglementeret uniformeret og med en opførsel, som ville give selv den mest hårdhudede sergent hjerteslag, ankommer discjockeyen Adrian Cronauer til Saigon under Vietnamkrigen. Allerede den første morgen, skriger han sit "GOOD MORNING, Vietnam" fulgt op af den vildeste rockmusik, æteren over den militære radiostation nogensinde er blevet fyldt med. Hans udsendelser overskrider de officielle program regulativer med flere dagsmarcher, men snart er Adrian Cronauer blevet soldaternes idol, officerernes mareridt og civilbefolkningens mærkeligste billede af Vestens kultur...