The Moonshiner is a 1904 American short silent action film produced by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. A family of moonshiners loads several jugs of illicit whiskey onto a horse-drawn wagon.

Significant footage is devoted to showing the methods and procedures of operating the still, which adds a documentary dimension to the film.

[1] The lookout is ambushed and apprehended by the government agents, who proceed to have a gunfight with the two outlaws operating the still.

The final intertitle reads "The Law Vindicated" but the film appears to portray the outlaws in a sympathetic light, undermining the moral message.

These types of films helped usher in the "Nickelodeon Era" (c. 1905-1915), a period of rapid expansion of small storefront movie theaters.