List of American films of the 1890s
A list of the earliest American films released in the 1890s.
1890s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1890 |
| Monkeyshines, No. 1 | William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | | Short | 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 | |
| Newark Athlete | William Kennedy Dickson | | Short | |
| 1893 |
| Blacksmith Scene | William K.L. Dickson | | Short | First Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition |
| 1894 |
| Dickson Experimental Sound Film | William K.L. Dickson | | Short | First Kinetophone film (i.e., first film with synchronous sound). Possibly 1895. |
| The Barbershop | William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | | Short | |
| 1896 |
| Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep | | | | |
| Dancing Darkies | | | | |
| McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio | | William McKinley, Ida Saxton McKinley, George Cortelyou | | |
| The Kiss | William Heise | May Irwin, John Rice | | |
| 1897 |
| The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | Enoch J. Rector | James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons | Feature | First feature film, first wide screen film, most successful film of the century |
| Peeping Tom | | | | |
| 1899 |
| How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man? | | | | |
| The Dreyfus Affair | | | | |
| Cinderella | | | | |
| The Astronomer's Dream | | | | |
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