This is the list of films made before 1900. They are the first known films and features in existence. Many of the films from that time have been lost but there are still quite a few around that are documented on the internet today.[1]
1887[]
- Man Walking Around a Corner
1888[]
- Roundhay Garden Scene
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
- Accordion Player
- Pferd Und Reiter Springen Über Ein Hindernis
1889[]
- Hyde Park Corner
1890[]
- Monkeyshines, No. 1
- London's Trafalgar Square
- Monkeyshines, No. 2
- Monkeyshines, No. 3
- Mosquinha
1891[]
- Dickson Greeting
- Men Boxing
- Newark Athlete
- Je Vous Aime
- La Vague
1892[]
- The Clown and His Dogs
- Poor Pierrot
- Fencing
- A Hand Shake
1893[]
- Blacksmith Scene
1894[]
- Autour D'une Cabine
- Falling Cat
- Annie Oakley
- The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
- Band Drill
- Bucking Broncho
- Buffalo Dance
- Chinese Laundry Scene
- The Pickaninny Dance From the "Passing Show"
1895[]
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance
- Les Forgerons
- Boat Leaving the Port
- The Boxing Kangaroo
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Fishing for Goldfish
- Opening of the Kiel Canal
- Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
- Princess Ali
- Jumping the Blanket
- Tables Turned on the Gardener
- Transformation by Hats
- Trick Riding
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
1896[]
- The Cabbage Fairy
- The Derby
- The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
- The Boxing Kangaroo
- Demolition of a Wall
- Boxing Match; Or, Glove Contest
- Landing at Low Tide
- A Sea Cave Near Lisbon
- A Morning Alarm
- McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
- Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
- Le Coucher De La Mariée
- The Shocking Very First Kiss on Film in the Kiss
- Feeding the Doves
- Two AM; Or, the Husband's Return
- The Twins' Tea Party
- Rough Sea at Dover
- Comic Costume Race
- Blackfriars Bridge
- Ostriches
- The Haunted Castle
- The Vanishing Lady
- Playing Cards
- Post No Bills
- Arab Cortege, Geneva
- Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
- Childish Quarrel
- Children Digging for Clams
- Dragoons Crossing the Sâone
- Loading a Boiler
- New York: Broadway at Union Square
- New York, Brooklyn Bridge
- Poultry-Yard
- Pompiers À Lyon
- Danse Serpentine
1897[]
- After the Ball
- Bathing in a Stream
- Between Calais and Dover
- The Bewitched Inn
- Chicago Police Parade
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
- Cupid and Psyche
- Driving With Greenland Dogs
- The Last Cartridges
- Leander Sisters
- Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
- Niagara Falls
- On the Roofs
- Peeping Tom
- Seminary Girls
- The Surrender of Tournavos
- The X-Rays
1898[]
- The Astronomer's Dream
- Come Along, Do!
- The Four Troublesome Heads
- The Magician
- The Miller and the Sweep
- Pack Train at Chilkoot Pass
1899[]
- Cinderella
- Santa Clause
- The Devil in a Convent
- The Dreyfus Affair
- King John
- The Kiss in the Tunnel
- Major Wilson's Last Stand