1917 Movies

A 1917 silent Western

"As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land at...

Doris Wingate is featured in a Sunday magazine supplement as the most snobbish girl in America. In reality, Doris is lovable and eager for friends, an...

The world's first animated surf movie

Feature film that tells the misadventures of Enrique Villar, the tramp who, through much hard work finally fights his way to win the hand of beautiful...

This was Gardel's first film and was directed by Francisco Defilippis Novoa and was made in collaboration with Celestino Petray.

Pirate melodrama.

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent of...

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in t...

When a bank is on the verge of collapse, its president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to cover its losses. Unknown to Fuller, however, Monroe Si...

Phemie, an avowed man-hater, marries Joe, the village blacksmith.

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

Slapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.

Directed by Masao Inoue.

A Dolly short.

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Hal Page, the weakling brother of Stephen Page, the town mayor, falls in love with Carline Shrefton, who throws over Burt Staley to entangle Hal in he...

Documentary on the then-new Chinese Republic, taken over a ten-year period. Footage includes races at Shanghai, imperial ceremonies at the national Te...