1916 Movies

In March 1916, Pathé released a short feature entitled Little Mary Sunshine, starring a four-year-old Marie Osborne. This was one of the first feature...

German propaganda film about the importance of buying war bonds.

Jack Langdon is sent by a San Francisco company to manage its Santa Clara mine in Peru. Gov. Juan Maria Barada, who disputes the American claim to the...

Daft silent comedy in which a suspicious wife poses as a naked Venus statue to spy on her husband

Based on a contemporary set novel by Shunyo Yanagawa, this film was adapted to the Japanese stage with multiple film versions to follow, including dir...

When the Greens move into a new apartment, Mrs. Green is concerned that Mr. Green is a bit too interested in the comely Mrs. Smith living in the apart...

Depicts a fictitious German invasion of Canada .

Danube upstream from Vienna, with its images of monasteries and castles. It's hard for an American to realize the age of civilization in Europe. This...

Animated Short

Shot during the motion picture exposition in Chicago in July 1916, this short shows off Musty Suffer as he is given the key to the city.

Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil deeds...