1917 Movies

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

1917 travelogue.

Documentary featuring the death of bullfighter Florentino Ballesteros.

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...

The inhabitants of Amsterdam enjoy themselves on the ice on the Herengracht. Skaters in Amsterdam get ready for their trip to Monnickendam and Marken....

Neurologist Max Nonne demonstrates a therapeutic procedure and its successes by means of suggestion in hypnosis for functional-motor disorders that ar...

Footage from Northern Sweden.

J. W. White's store is poorly-run and losing money. Things improve after he modernizes the store.

Back in 1917 a bunch of revoultionary artists were given a train to go round spreading the word about the revolution. Poets like Mayakovsky and the fi...

Queen Mary and Princess Mary visit women workers at Woolwich dockyard. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

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

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...

On a military base, we follow the preparation of the Austrian planes and their takeoff to fly over and observe the Italian enemy. The pilot is equippe...

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

An experimental short film by Luis Camas.

Funerals of Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro. "The great São Paulo; The arrival of the body to the gare of Praia Formosa; The exit from the iron to the...

An experimental short film by Luis Camas.

There's little sign of war in this attractively tinted film of London landmarks (the Dutch intertitles are mostly self-explanatory),but the film's pr...