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Niagara Falls in the Movies The First Niagara Falls Film It may surprise you to learn that the first time Niagara Falls featured in a film was way back in 1897, only two years after the world’s first commercial movie screening had taken place in Paris. The short documentary film Niagara Falls, known as Les Chutes in its native language, was directed by the pioneering French filmmaker Alexandre Promio. A single stationary camera films the scene of Niagara Falls from the United States side, cap...