1917 Movies

Flower girls hand baskets of flowers to Queen Alexandra on 'Rose Day'. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Propaganda film about the Dutch Military. Willy Mullens made this film in 1917, when other West-European armies had become numbed by three long years...

In this tale of the South in the mid-1800s, Annabel Lee and Warner Richmond get married, but they keep the wedding a secret so that Warner can inherit...

A series of war pictures, "Germany and Its Armies of To-day," has been brought to this country by the Germanic Official War Film, Inc., and are now re...

A film reenacting scenes from the life of Russian Orthodox Priest and anarchist Georgy Gapon.

Animated short originally presented as part of the Paramount Bray-Pictograph program.

Animated short originally presented as part of the Paramount Bray-Pictograph program

This short film about home-canning demonstrations sponsored by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party was made at the Bray Farm in Highland, Dutchess...

A lot has changed in the years since this promotional short film was made—but a lot hasn’t. Gym clothes have certainly improved, and exercise equipmen...

Footage of the devastating fire in Thessaloniki that took place in 1917. A Serbian Colonel called Mihailo Mihailović aka Mika Afrika captured the even...

Pratas is Chaplin's replica in Lisbon. Always making trouble, ends up with a red eye and running from the police.

When Dad Petzel is swindled out of the Busy Bee mine, his partner, Duke Farley, ventures East to capture the crooks.

Nancy Croyden, born of British nobility, languishes in the slums of New York after she elopes with Terrence Flynn, a groom on her father's estate. Nan...

A wealthy landlord and tong leader falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his tenants, a tea-shop merchant.