List of science fiction films before 1920

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A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.

Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes

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1895
La Charcuterie mécanique | Lumière Brothers |  | France | Short film[1]
1897
Gugusse et l'Automate | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Short film,[2] lost
The X-Rays | George Albert Smith |  | United Kingdom |
1898
Les rayons Röntgen | Georges Méliès |  | France | lost film
The Astronomer's Dream | Georges Méliès |  | France |
1902
A Trip to the Moon | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Short film
1904
The Impossible Voyage
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible | Georges_Méliès | Georges_Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy | France | Short film
1907
Under the Seas
AKA Deux Cents Milles sous les mers ou le Cauchemar du pêcheur
AKA 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Short film
The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France |
1908
El hotel eléctrico | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón | Spain | Short film[3][4]
1909
Airship Destroyer | Walter R. Booth |  | United Kingdom | Short film[5]
Viaje al planeta Júpiter | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón | Spain | Short film[3][4]
1910
Frankenstein | J. Searle Dawley | Augustus Phillips, Charles Stanton Ogle, Mary Fuller | United States | Short film
Viaje al centro de la tierra | Segundo de Chomón | Segundo de Chomón | Spain | Short film[3][4]
1911
The Aerial Anarchists | Walter R. Booth |  | United Kingdom | Short film , lost film
Little Moritz enlève Rosalie | Henri Gambard |  | France | Short film
1912
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Lucius J. Henderson | James Cruze, Florence La Badie | United States | Short film |
The Conquest of the Pole | George Melies | George Melies | France | Short film
1913
Amerika – Europa im Luftschiff | Alfred Lind |  | Germany |
Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola | Marcel Fabre |  | Italy |
A Message from Mars | J. Wallett Waller |  | United Kingdom |
1915
Der Kraftmeier | Ernst Lubitsch | Ernst Lubitsch | Germany |
Der Tunnel a.k.a The Tunnel | William Wauer | Friedrich Kayssler, Fritzi Massary, Hermann Vallentin, Felix Basch | Germany |
William Voss | Rudolf Meinert |  | Germany |
1916
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Stuart Paton | Leviticus Jones, Allen Holubar | United States |
Homunculus | Otto Rippert | Olaf Fønss, Friedrich Kuehne | Germany | Serial film[6]
Tales of Hoffmann | Richard Oswald | Erich Kaiser-Titz, Werner Krauss | Germany |
Titanenkampf | Joseph Delmont | Erich Kaiser-Titz | Germany |
Verdens Undergang | August Blom | Alf Blütecher, Olaf Fønss, Johanne Fritz-Petersen | Denmark | [7]
1917
Himmelskibet | Holger-Madsen | Ole Olsen | Denmark |
1918
Alraune | Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz | Géza Erdélyi, Gyula Gál | Hungary |
Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne | Eugen Illés, Joseph Klein | Max Auzinger, Joseph Klein | Germany |
The Master Mystery | Burton King | Harry Houdini, Ruth Stonehouse, William Pike, Floyd Buckley | United States | Serial film[8][9]
The Star Prince | Madeline Brandeis | Zoe Rae, Dorphia Brown  | United States
A Trip to Mars
AKA Himmelskibet | Holger-Madsen | Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam | Denmark |  |
1919
Die Arche | Richard Oswald | Leo Connard, Eva Speyer | Germany |
The First Men in the Moon | Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh | Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher, Lionel d'Aragon | United Kingdom | lost film
The Mistress of the World | Joe May | Mia May, Michael Bohnen, Hans Mierendorff | Germany |

## See also

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* History of science fiction films

## References

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1. ^ Hardy, Phil (1994). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction. Overlook Press. p. 19\. ISBN 0-87951-626-7.
2. ^ Benson, Michael (2002). Fighting Robots: A Guide to Radio-controlled Combatants. Citadel Press. p. 15\. ISBN 0-8065-2372-7.
3. ^ a b c Jiménez, Jesús (18 February 2012). "La ciencia ficción, un género tan raro en el cine español como estimulante". rtve (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
4. ^ a b c Merelo, Alfonso (14 December 2004). "Ecine de ciencia ficción en españa: Una aproximación". Ciencia-ficcion.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
5. ^ Paris, Michael (1995). From the Wright brothers to Top gun: aviation, nationalism, and popular cinema. Manchester University Press. p. 16\. ISBN 0-7190-4074-4.
6. ^ Prince, Stephen (2004). The Horror Film. Rutgers University Press. p. 22\. ISBN 0-8135-3363-5.
7. ^ Mitry, Jean (1965). Filmographie Universelle (in French). Vol. 5\. Paris, France: Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. p. 155.
8. ^ Wollstein, Hans J. (2009). "The Master Mystery (1918)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
9. ^ Telotte, J. P. (1999). A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age. Wesleyan University Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-8195-6346-3.

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## External links

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* Science fiction films from the 1890s to the 1910s on Internet Movie Database

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