List of British films from 1888 to 1919:
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1888 | ||||||
| Roundhay Garden Scene | Louis Le Prince | Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley | Live action | The earliest surviving film | ||
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| 1890 | ||||||
| Trafalgar Square traffic | Wordsworth Donisthorpe | Live action | 10 frames only, believed never shown publicly | |||
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| 1895 | ||||||
| The Clown Barber | James Williamson | Comedy | ||||
| The Derby | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's Derby | |||
| Opening of the Kiel Canal | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race | Birt Acres | Documentary | A silent film of that year's race | |||
| Rough Sea at Dover | Birt Acres Robert W. Paul |
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| 1896 | ||||||
| Barnet Horse Fair | Robert W. Paul | Documentary | ||||
| The Boxing Kangaroo | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
| Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | Birt Acres | Documentary | ||||
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| 1897 | ||||||
| Weary Willie | ||||||
| Tipsy-Topsy-Turvy | ||||||
| The Sign Writer | ||||||
| Nursing the Baby | ||||||
| Making Sausages | ||||||
| The Maid in the Garden | ||||||
| The Haunted Castle | ||||||
| Hanging Out the Clothes | ||||||
| Gymnastics - Indian Club Performer | ||||||
| Comic Shaving | ||||||
| Comic Face | aka Man Drinking (UK) | |||||
| Children Paddling at the Seaside | ||||||
| The X-Rays | ||||||
| 1898 | ||||||
| Waves and Spray | ||||||
| The Runaway Knock | ||||||
| A Practical Joke | ||||||
| The Policeman, the Cook and the Copper | ||||||
| Photographing a Ghost | ||||||
| The Miller and the Sweep | ||||||
| The Mesmerist | ||||||
| The Lady Barber | ||||||
| Faust and Mephistopheles | ||||||
| The Corsican Brothers | ||||||
| Cinderella | ||||||
| Animated Clown Portrait | ||||||
| Ally Sloper | ||||||
| 1899 | ||||||
| The Visit of Santa Claus | ||||||
| The Legacy | ||||||
| The Kiss in the Tunnel | George Albert Smith | |||||
| A Good Joke | ||||||
| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1900 | ||||||
| As Seen Through a Telescope | George Albert Smith | Short | ||||
| The Beggar's Deceit | Cecil Hepworth | |||||
| Explosion of a Motor Car | Cecil Hepworth | |||||
| Grandma's Reading Glass | George Albert Smith | none | Drama | One minute film | ||
| A Railway Collision | Walter R. Booth | none | Drama | 22 secs film | ||
| 1901 | ||||||
| Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost | Walter R. Booth | none | Short | 11 minutes long (5 minutes surviving) | ||
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| 1903 | ||||||
| Alice in Wonderland | Cecil Hepworth | May Clark | Fantasy Short | 8 minutes long | ||
| Desperate Poaching Affray | William Haggar | Will Haggar Jr. | Chase | 3 minutes long | ||
| Mary Jane's Mishap | George Albert Smith | |||||
| Sick Kitten | George Albert Smith | |||||
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| 1905 | ||||||
| Baby's Toilet | Cecil Hepworth | Documentary | 3 minutes long | |||
| Rescued by Rover | Cecil Hepworth | Mabel Clark, Sebastian Smith | Drama | 6 minutes long | ||
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| 1907 | ||||||
| Ben Hur | Sidney Olcott | Herman Rottger, William S. Hart | Historical | 15 minutes long | ||
| The Sleigh Belle | Sidney Olcott | |||||
| The Pony Express | Sidney Olcott | |||||
| 1908 | ||||||
| A Visit to the Seaside | George Albert Smith | |||||
| 1909 | ||||||
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1910 | ||||||
| The Blue Bird | Unknown | Pauline Gilmer, Olive Walter | Comedy | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1911 | ||||||
| Aerial Anarchists | Walter Booth | Science fiction | ||||
| A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization | Cherry Kearton | Drama | ||||
| Princess Clementina | William G.B. Barker | H.B. Irving, Alice Young, Dorothea Baird | Adventure | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1912 | ||||||
| With Our King and Queen Through India | Documentary | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1913 | ||||||
| Hamlet | Hay Plumb | Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot | Drama | |||
| The House of Temperley | Harold M. Shaw | Charles Maude, Ben Webster | Drama | |||
| Maria Marten, or the Mystery of the Red Barn | Maurice Elvey | Elizabeth Risdon | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1914 | ||||||
| Eugene Aram | Edwin J. Collins | Jack Leigh, Mary Manners | Drama | |||
| The Life of Shakespeare | Frank R. Growcott, J.B. McDowell | Albert Ward, George Foley | Biopic | |||
| She Stoops to Conquer | George Loane Tucker | Henry Ainley, Jane Gail | Comedy | Based on the play by Oliver Goldsmith | ||
| A Study in Scarlet | George Pearson | James Bragington, Fred Paul | First film to feature Sherlock Holmes | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1915 | ||||||
| The Baby on the Barge | Cecil Hepworth | Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome | Drama | |||
| Barnaby Rudge | Thomas Bentley | Tom Powers, Stewart Rome | Drama | Based on Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens | ||
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Laurence Trimble | Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Malcolm Cherry | Drama | |||
| Fight for the Dardanelles | Percy F. Smith | World War I documentary | ||||
| The Heart of Sister Ann | Harold M. Shaw | Edna Flugrath, Hayford Hobbs | Drama | |||
| Honeymoon for Three | Maurice Elvey | Charles Hawtrey, Elisabeth Risdon | Comedy | |||
| Jane Shore | Bert Haldane, F. Martin Thornton | Blanche Forsythe, Roy Travers | Historical | |||
| Rupert of Hentzau | George Loane Tucker | Henry Ainley, Jane Gail | Adventure | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1916 | ||||||
| The Battle of the Somme | Geoffrey Malins John McDowell |
World War I | Documentary/Propaganda | |||
| Beau Brocade | Thomas Bentley | Mercy Hatton, Charles Rock | Adventure/Drama | Based on a novel by Baroness Orczy | ||
| East Is East | Henry Edwards | Florence Turner, Henry Edwards | Drama | |||
| Kent, the Fighting Man | A.E. Coleby | Billy Wells, Hetty Payne | Sport | |||
| The Merchant of Venice | Walter West | Hutin Britton, Matheson Lang | Drama | |||
| Milestones | Thomas Bentley | Isobel Elsom, Owen Nares | Drama | |||
| Sir James Mortimer's Wager | Leslie Seldon-Truss | Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Hyland | Romance | |||
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | Rex Wilson | Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1917 | ||||||
| Auld Lang Syne | Sidney Morgan | Violet Graham, Henry Baynton | Crime | |||
| The Gay Lord Quex | Maurice Elvey | Ben Webster, Irene Vanbrugh | Comedy | |||
| For All Eternity | Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby | Janet Alexander, Malvina Longfellow | Crime | |||
| Holy Orders | Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby | Malvina Longfellow, Maud Yates | Romance | |||
| The House Opposite | Walter West, Frank Wilson | Matheson Lang, Violet Hopson | Drama | |||
| A Pit Boy's Romance | Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby | Jimmy Wilde, Tommy Noble | Drama | |||
| The Ragged Messenger | Frank Wilson | Violet Hopson, Gerald Ames | Drama | |||
| The Village Blacksmith | Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby | Janet Alexander, Arthur Rooke | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1918 | ||||||
| Adam Bede | Maurice Elvey | Bransby Williams, Ivy Close | Drama | Adapted from the novel by George Eliot | ||
| Consequences | Arthur Rooke | Gordon Craig, Joyce Templeton | Comedy | |||
| Hindle Wakes | Maurice Elvey | Colette O'Niel, Hayford Hobbs | Drama | |||
| The Kiddies in the Ruins | George Pearson | Emmy Lynn, Hugh E. Wright | War | |||
| Nelson | Maurice Elvey | Donald Calthrop, Malvina Longfellow | Biopic | |||
| Rock of Ages | Bertram Phillips | Queenie Thomas, Leslie George | Drama | |||
| Thelma | Arthur Rooke | Malvina Longfellow, Maud Yayes | Drama | |||
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