1917 Movies

A tomboy, raised by a father who wanted a son, runs away from boarding school and gets a job at a firm.

The movie has been preserved incompletely, with no inscriptions.

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

Musty suffers from sleeplessness and consults a quack doctor, who administers "Starlight Sleep."

A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.

Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into saf...

Alice, a little newsgirl known as "Sticks", spends her time fighting for her territory against a lot of tough kids.

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack...

Animated drawings demonstrate how specialized German submarines laid mines in the English Channel during World War I.

George Hughes (Ed Brady) and Harry Cook (Robyn Adair) are millionaire owners of rival horse-racing stables. Jimmy Abbott (Martin G. Cox)is a jockey fo...

Young society rake Gerard Buckland spies a pretty girl walking down the street. As he tries to figure out a way to approach her, he sees a disreputabl...

Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island...

It is Christmas Eve, and some are finding it easier to look forward to the upcoming celebrations than others. In the home of Widow Ejlersen and her ad...

FRAGMENT | Hannibal comes across as a total lunatic in his desperate attempt to impress Miss Alma and her father. The troubles arise when Hannibal for...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself depe...

Roger Kendall is sent to Nashville by the editor of his magazine to sign a contract for two cents a word with a woman writer named Azalea Adair. Once...