Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a...

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

A policeman is run over by an automobile

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.