Free 1900s movies, cartoons and shorts

12 titles on the air now, made between 1902 and 1909 - about 1 hours of viewing in all. 0 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 12 are shorts. 12 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.

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Every title from the 1900s that is on the air at Starlite TV right now, across all of our channels, sorted by year. Films published before 1931 are in the U.S. public domain because their copyright terms have expired.

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Where to start

Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.

• The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10 min · Dusty Trails
  The Great Train Robbery was made by Edwin S. Porter for Thomas Edison's film company in November 1903, shot in the Edison studio in New York and on location in New Jersey.
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) 15 min · Rocket Age
  Georges Méliès was a stage magician who ran his own theatre in Paris before discovering cinema in the 1890s.
• The Impossible Voyage (1904) 20 min · Rocket Age