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 After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy.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.

オンライン・カジノで大損した大学生が、ひょんなことからその経営者の手伝いをすることになり、やがてFBIにも目を付けられて窮地に陥るさまをスリリングに描く。監督は「リンカーン弁護士」のブラッド・ファーマン。オンライン・ポーカーで大負けし、学費を全額スッてしまった天才学生リッチー。すぐにサイトのイカサマを見抜き、カジノ王として知られるサイト・オーナーのブロックのもとへと直談判に出向く。ブロックはリッチーの抗議を受け入れ、お詫びとして掛け金の返済と残りの学費の肩代わりを申し出る。さらに、彼の才能を高く評価したブロックによって、カジノ経営を手伝うことになるリッチーだったが...。

歴史で落第しかかった二人はなぜかタイムマシンに乗って原始から未来までかけめぐり、ソクラテス、ナポレオン、ベートーヴェンその他を現在に連れてきて、試験パスを目論むのだが……。リーヴスとウィンターのおバカ高校生コンビを一躍全米の人気者にした荒唐無稽コメディ。

新聞王ケーンが、“バラのつぼみ”という謎の言葉を残して死んだ。新聞記者のトンプソンは、その言葉の意味を求めて、生前のケーンを知る人物にあたるが……。様々な人物の証言から、新聞界に君臨した男の実像が浮かび上がる、斬新な構成と演出で評判を呼んだ、ウェルズ弱冠25歳の処女作。

ハリウッドのスター、ボブ・ハリス（ビル・マーレイ）はウイスキーのCM撮影のために来日し、滞在先のホテルへと向かっていた。ホテルで出迎える日本人スタッフに軽く挨拶をし部屋に入るとアメリカの妻からファックスが入る……。

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

アメリカ、ミズーリ州の田舎町エビングの道路に立ち並ぶ３枚の広告看板。それは７カ月前に娘を殺されたミルドレッド・ヘイズが、進展しない警察の捜査に腹を立て、エビング広告社のレッド・ウェルビーと契約した広告だった。ウィロビー署長は、看板を見つけたディクソン巡査から報せを受け、ミルドレッド宅を訪ねて捜査状況を丁寧に説明するが彼女は聞く耳を持たない。多くの町の人々はウィロビーを敬愛しており、ミルドレッドを説得しようとするが問題は深まるばかり。警察の捜査を進展させるはずが、孤立無援となっていくミルドレッド。ところが、ミルドレッドはもちろん、この広告騒ぎに関わったすべての人々の人生さえも変えてしまう衝撃の事件が起きてしまう。

戦後、無になった日本へ追い打ちをかけるように現れたゴジラがこの国を 負 に叩き落す。史上最も絶望的な状況での襲来に、誰が?そしてどうやって?日本は立ち向かうのか―。

南アフリカ、1893年。ただ白人では無いことを理由に一人の青年紳士が列車の一等車から放り出され、この人種差別に青年は激しい怒りを覚えた。青年の名はモハンダス・Ｋ・ガンジー。ロンドンで法律を学んだ彼はインド人商社の顧問弁護士として南アフリカのダーバンへ渡って来たのだ。彼はインド人移民に呼びかけて身分証明カードを焼き拾てることを提唱する。

　フランス、ヌーヴェル・ヴァーグの決定打と言わしめたジャン＝リュック・ゴダール監督の最高傑作。警官を殺してパリに逃げて来た自転車泥棒のミシェルは、アメリカ人の恋人パトリシアとお互い自由で束縛のない関係を楽しんでいた。そんなある日、彼の元に警察の手が及んでくる。パトリシアはミシェルの愛を確かめる為、彼の居場所を警察に密告、そして彼にも同様に警察が追ってきた事を伝えるが……。

自らスター・ロードと名乗るトレジャーハンターのピーター・クイル。ピーターは無限の力を持つパワーストーンのオーブを入手するものの、その後逮捕され刑務所にぶち込まれてしまう。ピーターは天才メカニックのロケットら刑務所で出会った仲間と脱獄するも、オーブの力で宇宙を滅亡させようとする強大な悪と戦うこととなる。

1965年、サイゴンにやって来た米軍放送の人気DJを通して間接的にベトナム戦争を描いた人間ドラマ。実在のモデル、エイドリアン・クロナウアーに扮したR・ウィリアムスのマシンガン・トークによる破天荒なDJぶりが痛快。ベトナム戦争ものとしては番外編に位置するが、戦場からの視点ではない所が興味深い。