| Cinema of the United States |
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| 1890s |
| 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 |
| 1900s |
| 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 |
| 1910s |
| 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 |
| 1920s |
| 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
| 1930s |
| 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 |
| 1940s |
| 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |
| 1950s |
| 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |
| 1960s |
| 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 |
| 1970s |
| 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 |
| 1980s |
| 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 |
| 1990s |
| 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 |
| 2000s |
| 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
| 2010s |
| 2010 2011 |
A list of the earliest American films released in the 1890s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | ||||||
| Monkeyshines, No. 1 | William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Sacco Albanese | Short, Comedy, Family | First ever American film: contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890 | ||
| Monkeyshines, No. 2 | Short | |||||
| Monkeyshines, No. 3 | Short | |||||
| 1891 | ||||||
| Dickson Greeting | William Kennedy Dickson | William Kennedy Dickson | Short | |||
| 1892 | ||||||
| Boxing | Short, Sport | |||||
| Fencing | Short, Sport | |||||
| A Hand Shake | Short | |||||
| Man on Parallel Bars | Short, Sport | |||||
| Wrestling | Short, Sport | |||||
| 1893 | ||||||
| Blacksmith Scene | William K.L. Dickson | Short | First Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition | |||
| Horse Shoeing | ||||||
| 1894 | ||||||
| Dickson Experimental Sound Film | William K.L. Dickson | Short | First Kinetophone film (i.e., first film with synchronous sound). Possibly 1895. | |||
| 1895 | ||||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| American Falls from Above, American Side | ||||||
| American Falls, from Incline R.R. | ||||||
| Rip Passing Over the Mountain | ||||||
| Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep | ||||||
| Dancing Darkies | ||||||
| A Hard Wash | ||||||
| A Watermelon Feast | ||||||
| Feeding the Doves | ||||||
| The Burning Stable | ||||||
| A Morning Bath | ||||||
| Mounted Police Charge | ||||||
| A Morning Alarm | ||||||
| McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio | William McKinley, Ida Saxton McKinley, George Cortelyou | |||||
| The Kiss | William Heise | May Irwin, John Rice | ||||
| 1897 | ||||||
| The Bewitched Inn | ||||||
| 1898 | ||||||
| 1899 | ||||||
| Bear Jumping Hurdles | ||||||
| How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man? | ||||||
| Love and War | ||||||
| Pianka and Her Lions | ||||||
| Strange Adventure of New York Drummer | ||||||
| The Trick Bear | ||||||
| The Wrestling Bear | ||||||
| The Dreyfus Affair | ||||||
| Cinderella | ||||||
| The Astronomer's Dream | ||||||