Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.

Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.

An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J....

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

The boy Is a bachelor of thirty who by diligence and perseverance is on the road to success. The boy's success gains him introduction into...

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Farm girl Dorothy, clashes with her traditional father over her ambition to become a writer and eventually leaves to pursue her dreams after meeting...

Butterfly dance.

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

Alice Guy films the sea.

Alice Guy film.

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty,...

Inspired by a Robert W. Service poem, the story concerns a Parisian demimonde named Lucille who becomes the model of an aspiring artist named Robert....

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema after directing, producing, and writing more than...

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.