et Triboulet (a.k.a. The King and the Jester) – 1907 French short by Georges Méliès about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto) La prophétesse de Thèbes – 1907 French short by Georges Méliès in which a prophetess foresees the assassination of the King of Thebes The Assassination of the Duke of Guise – 1908 French short by Charles Le Bargy on the 1588 assassination of the Duc de Guise by King Henri III (Le Bargy) at the Château de Blois Macbeth – 1908 short by J. Stuart Blackton, based on the tragedy by Shakespeare, in which King Duncan (Charles Kent) is murdered by his thane Macbeth (William V. Ranous), loosely based on the death of Duncan I in 1040 – followed by numerous other versions La mort de Lincoln (a.k.a. La fin de Lincoln) – 1909 French short by Albert Capellani about the assassination and death of President Lincoln (Henri Desfontaines) in 1865 Judith et Holopherne – 1909 French short by Louis Feuillade on the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Biblical heroine Judith (Renée Carl), based on the Book of Judith A Fool's Revenge – 1909 film by D. W. Griffith in which a jester and protective father (Charles Inslee) arranges the assassination of his lascivious lord (Owen Moore), based on Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse and Verdi's opera Rigoletto 1910s Becket (a.k.a. The Martyrdom of Thomas A. [sic] Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury) – 1910 short by Charles Kent about the assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (Kent) in 1170 The Assassination of Admiral Coligny – 1910 short by the Urban Trading Company about the murder of French Huguenot leader Coligny in 1572 just prior to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre Chūshingura (a.k.a. A Tale of Loyal Retainers) – c. 1910 Japanese film by Shōzō Makino, starring Matsunosuke Onoe, about the Forty-seven rōnin, a group of samurai who plotted to avenge their lord's death in 1701 – also, earlier 1907 short by Ryo Konishi L'assassinat d'Henri III – 1911 French short by Henri Desfontaines and Louis Mercanton on the mortal wounding of King Henri III in 1589 by an anti-Protestant Dominican friar Ulrih Celjski i Vladislav Hunjadi – 1911 Serbian short by Čiča Ilija Stanojević, the first Serbian film, about the murder of Hungarian regent Ulrih Celjski (Stanojević) in 1456 and the reprisal