Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second, and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince, who was in Leeds (UK) at that time, sent these images to his wife in New York City in a letter dated 18 August 1887.

Sara is an overweight teen who lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she's bullied at the local pool in front of an unknown man. Her clothes are stolen and Sara must get home wearing nothing but her bikini.

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

Príbeh zo začiatku 20. storočia nás zavedie na chladný sever Európy. V roku 1912 sa v Nórsku narodilo dievčatko s hypertrichózou, vrodenou chorobou, ktorá spôsobuje nadmerný rast ochlpenia na celom tele. Jej otec smúti nielen pre stratu manželky pri pôrode, ale aj pre dcérin neprirodzený vzhľad. Eva je odmala vydaná na milosť a nemilosť lekárom, ktorí nevedia, čo s ňou majú robiť, a spolužiakom, ktorí sa jej smejú. Ani vlastný otec netuší, ako sa má k dcére správať, a preto ju radšej drží v ústraní pred zvedavým svetom. Mladá Eva sa však rozhodne, že svoj sen žiť tak ako ostatní ľudia naplní za každú cenu. Eva rastie a dospieva, spoznáva ľudí, ktorí sa jej buď vyhýbajú, alebo naopak, zvedavo dotýkajú, ktorí ju úprimne objímajú ale aj podlo zneužívajú. Ona to všetko dokáže s nadhľadom prežiť, za čo vďačí svojej inteligencii, dôvtipu a vnútornej kráse.

Georges Mélies je jedným z najslávnejších „otcov“ filmu. Ako prvý si uvedomil silu filmovej ilúzie a pracoval s ňou tak, že dokázal vytvoriť aj krátkometrážne sci-fi. Vo svojej slávnej Ceste na Mesiac tak vystrelil raketu skôr, než sa to podarilo Rusom či Američanom, objavil Mesačných ľudí a stretol sa aj s prvými pirátmi. Neustále kopírovanie jeho filmov, v čom ešte nejestvovala právna ochrana, ho nakoniec tak zdeptalo, že skončil v obchode s hračkami a svoje dielo spálil.

Príbeh mladého chlapca Edmunda sa odohráva v zničenom Nemecku bezprostredne po druhej svetovej vojne, v období, keď musí krajina a jej obyvatelia začať od nuly. Edmund s rodinou zápasia o každodenný kúsok jedla – až kým Edmund nestretne svojho bývalého učiteľa, ktorý by mu mohol pomôcť. Zdá sa však, že Edmunda vystavuje ešte väčšiemu nebezpečenstvu.

Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.