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	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short
Monkeyshines, No. 3	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		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
The 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			Short
Dancing Darkies	William K.L. Dickson		Short
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio		William McKinley, Ida Saxton McKinley, George Cortelyou	Short
The Kiss	William Heise	May Irwin, John Rice	Short
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			Short
1899
How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?			Short

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