The Christians become Nero’s scapegoat for the Great Fire of Rome.

Starring Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, and Lea Giunchi · Directed by Enrico Guazzoni

Raffles, a gentleman thief, pulls off daring robberies while narrowly avoiding capture.

Starring John Barrymore · Directed by George Irving

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

Directed by Edwin S. Porter

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

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

Directed by Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca

Ira and his son-in-law pretend to enlist, but while on a fishing trip, they learn “their” regiment has been wiped out.

Starring Sidney Drew and Harry T. Morey · Directed by George D. Baker and Ralph Ince

King Richard’s enemy the Duke of Monserrat steals the English flag and Sir Kenneth engages him in mortal combat to avenge the insult.

Starring Amleto Novelli and Emilio Ghione

A runaway train speeds down the track in this blend of animation and travel photography.

Starring Lyman H. Howe · Directed by Lyman H. Howe

Tonga is captured and threatened to be sacrificed by Montezuma, but Princess Tacki has fallen in love with the captive and works to free him.

Starring William S. Hart · Directed by Charles Swickard

After her husband dies at sea, Madeline travels to the city to study sculpture but her tutor has a more than professional interest in her.

Starring Julia Swayne Gordon · Directed by Laurence Trimble