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James H. White

Director · 229 credits · 30 in highly-rated films

Best known for Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower (1900)

Frequent collaborators: William Heise, Edwin S. Porter

Best James H. White movies by genre

Directed movies (227 total, ranked by score)

  1. Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower

    1900 · ★ 6.1 (13 votes)

    Documentary

    1

  2. Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory

    1897 · ★ 5.1 (36 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. Turkish Dance, Ella Lola

    1898 · ★ 5.2 (9 votes)

    3

  4. Annabelle Butterfly Dance

    1894 · ★ 5.5 (54 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Fun in Camp

    1899 · ★ 4.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. Down the Old Potomac

    1917 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Colonel Funston Swimming the Bagbag River

    1899 · ★ 3.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    7

  8. Ostriches Running, No. 1

    1898

    Documentary

    8

  9. Torpedo Boat 'Morris' Running

    1900 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    9

  10. Sea Beach Scene

    1896 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Giant Coal Dumper

    1897 · ★ 5.9 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. Rout of the Filipinos

    1899

    Documentary

    12

  13. Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce

    1900 · ★ 5.9 (8 votes)

    Comedy

    13

  14. Champs de Mars

    1900 · ★ 5.5 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    14

  15. Boxing for Points

    1897 · ★ 3.7 (3 votes)

    15

  16. Dogs Playing in the Surf

    1898

    Documentary

    16

  17. Fighting the Fire

    1898

    Documentary

    17

  18. Rescue - Resuscitation

    1897

    Documentary

    18

  19. Red Cross Ambulance on Battlefield

    1900 · ★ 2.5 (2 votes)

    19

  20. Chicken Thieves

    1897 · ★ 3.3 (3 votes)

    20

  21. Battery K Siege Guns

    1899 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. Kanakas Diving for Money (Honolulu), No. 2

    1898 · ★ 3.3 (3 votes)

    22

  23. Palace of Electricity

    1900 · ★ 5.4 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. Japanese Sampans

    1898

    24

  25. Horses loading for Klondike, no. 9

    1897 · ★ 3.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    25

  26. Bull Fight, no. 3

    1898

    Documentary

    26

  27. A Morning Alarm

    1896 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. S.S. 'Coptic' Sailing Away

    1897 · ★ 4.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    28

  29. Sunday Morning in Mexico

    1898

    29

  30. Scene on Surf Ave., Coney Island

    1896 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.