1888-1913
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | ||||||
| Roundhay Garden Scene | Louis Le Prince | Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley | Live action | The earliest surviving film | ||
| 1889 | ||||||
| Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses | William Friese-Greene | Live action | ||||
| 1890 | ||||||
| London's Trafalgar Square | Wordsworth Donisthorpe | Live action | 10 frames only, believed never shown publicly | |||
| 1895 | ||||||
| The Clown Barber | James Williamson | Comedy | ||||
| The Derby | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's Derby | |||
| Opening of the Kiel Canal | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's race | |||
| Rough Sea at Dover | Birt Acres Robert W. Paul |
Documentary | ||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| Breakers | ||||||
| A Sea Cave Near Lisbon | R.W. Paul | Documentary | ||||
| Rocky Shore | ||||||
| A Soldier's Courtship | R.W. Paul | Drama | ||||
| Barnet Horse Fair | Robert W. Paul | Documentary | ||||
| The Boxing Kangaroo | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| 1897 | ||||||
| The Miller and the Sweep | G.A. Smith | |||||
| Women Fetching Water from the Nile | R.W. Paul | |||||
| Weary Willie | ||||||
| Tipsy-Topsy-Turvy | ||||||
| The Sign Writer | ||||||
| Nursing the Baby | ||||||
| Making Sausages | ||||||
| The Maid in the Garden | ||||||
| The Haunted Castle | ||||||
| Hanging Out the Clothes | ||||||
| Gymnastics - Indian Club Performer | ||||||
| Comic Shaving | ||||||
| Comic Face | aka Man Drinking (UK) | |||||
| Children Paddling at the Seaside | ||||||
| The X-Rays | ||||||
| 1898 | ||||||
| Come, Along Do! | ||||||
| Waves and Spray | ||||||
| The Runaway Knock | ||||||
| A Practical Joke | ||||||
| The Policeman, the Cook and the Copper | ||||||
| Photographing a Ghost | ||||||
| The Miller and the Sweep | ||||||
| The Mesmerist | ||||||
| The Lady Barber | ||||||
| Faust and Mephistopheles | ||||||
| The Corsican Brothers | ||||||
| Cinderella | ||||||
| Animated Clown Portrait | ||||||
| Ally Sloper | ||||||
| 1899 | ||||||
| Major Wilson's Last Stand | War | Studio: Levi, Jones & Company. Based on the historical events of the Shangani Patrol (1893) | ||||
| The Visit of Santa Claus | ||||||
| The Legacy | ||||||
| The Kiss in the Tunnel | George Albert Smith | |||||
| A Good Joke | ||||||
| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | ||||||
| 1900 | ||||||
| As Seen Through a Telescope | George Albert Smith | Short | ||||
| The Beggar's Deceit | Cecil Hepworth | |||||
| Explosion of a Motor Car | Cecil Hepworth | |||||
| Grandma's Reading Glass | George Albert Smith | none | Drama | One minute film | ||
| A Railway Collision | Walter R. Booth | none | Drama | 22 secs film | ||
| 1901 | ||||||
| Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost | Walter R. Booth | none | Short | 11 minutes long (5 minutes surviving) | ||
| The Death of Poor Joe | George Albert Smith | |||||
| 1903 | ||||||
| A Daring Daylight Burglary | Frank Mottershaw | |||||
| Alice in Wonderland | Cecil Hepworth | May Clark | 8 minutes long | |||
| Desperate Poaching Affray | William Haggar | Will Haggar Jr. | Chase | 3 minutes long | ||
| Mary Jane's Mishap | George Albert Smith | |||||
| Sick Kitten | George Albert Smith | |||||
| 1905 | ||||||
| Baby's Toilet | Cecil Hepworth | Documentary | 3 minutes long | |||
| Rescued by Rover | Cecil Hepworth | Mabel Clark, Sebastian Smith | Drama | 6 minutes long | ||
| 1907 | ||||||
| Ben Hur | Sidney Olcott | Herman Rottger, William S. Hart | Historical | 15 minutes long | ||
| The Sleigh Belle | Sidney Olcott | |||||
| The Pony Express | Sidney Olcott | |||||
| 1908 | ||||||
| A Visit to the Seaside | George Albert Smith | |||||
| 1909 | ||||||
| The Airship Destroyer | Walter R. Booth | Science fiction | ||||
| 1910 | ||||||
| The Blue Bird | Unknown | Pauline Gilmer, Olive Walter | Comedy | |||
| 1911 | ||||||
| Aerial Anarchists | Walter Booth | Science fiction | ||||
| A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization | Cherry Kearton | Drama | ||||
| Princess Clementina | William G.B. Barker | H.B. Irving, Alice Young, Dorothea Baird | Adventure | |||
| 1912 | ||||||
| With Our King and Queen Through India | Documentary | |||||
| 1913 | ||||||
| Hamlet | Hay Plumb | Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot | Drama | |||
| The House of Temperley | Harold M. Shaw | Charles Maude, Ben Webster | Drama | |||
| Maria Marten, or the Mystery of the Red Barn | Maurice Elvey | Elizabeth Risdon | Drama | |||
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