A short 1896 actuality depicting the Black Diamond Express as it approaches and speeds passed the camera.

A short 1897 actuality depicting a Southern Pacific Railroad train with a mail car exiting a tunnel.

A short actuality from 1901 showing the passage of the Empire State Express train.

Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short.

A pickpocket’s simple robbery escalates into a crime far more serious aboard a train.

When a heartless creditor comes to foreclose on an old man’s farm, his daughter’s fiancé pawns his watch and stakes it all on the long shot at the horse race.

A benevolent spirit battles a spectral skeleton who has kidnapped women that he keeps captive in his infernal lair.

A listless patrician in Rome is awakened by the love of a dancing slave, angering his jealous wife.

A traveler is tormented by ghosts and poltergeists at a haunted hotel.

Chariot racer Ben Hur competes against his enemy Messala and against Rome’s occupation of Jerusalem.