The Nihilist is a 1905 American short silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

It takes place in the Russian Empire and relates the story of a woman who joins the Nihilist movement and commits a suicide attack against the Governor's palace to avenge her husband who died because of police repression.

After her husband has been arrested by the Tsarist police, a woman begs the governor for mercy, without success.

She decides to join a nihilist group and is ordered to bomb the governor's palace.

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