1917 Movies

Travelogue released on the 22nd of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 8th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A documentary film describing the family planning work of Margaret Sanger.

Separated from her lover Richard Mallaby and left alone in the East to raise her child, a heartbroken Mary Livingston travels West to survive.

A 1917 Argentinian film.

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

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are accompanie...

A documentary about life in Cape Cod which shows the streets of Provincetown as they were at the time. Children are featured playing hide and seek, sh...

Running four reels, How Uncle Sam Prepares illustrated the measures taken by the United States in the months prior to its inevitable entry into WWI.

An experimental short film by Luis Camas.

French soldiers injured in WWI are re-educated to learn new trades.

Documentary short.

General Nivelle gives the cross of war to Italian officers and soldiers Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Generals Nivelle, Cadorna and Porro...

Documentary featuring the death of bullfighter Florentino Ballesteros.

A spring idyll released via Edison's short-lived Conquest Pictures sometime in 1917.

Footage from Northern Sweden.