1917 Movies

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in...

From the shores of Lake Huron to the prairie capital of Manitoba is an interesting trip. Scenes shown are motorboating amid the Thirty Thousand Island...

The story is about Max who in holiday in Switzerland meets two young American girls. They're friends, the first one is blond, the other one is brunett...

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

A young woman, who is the daughter of a sea captain, falls in love with a man from a rich family who does not approve of her.

An arrogant young man leaves his Ohio home to make it big on Broadway in New York City when he inherits the family business and $1-million. However, t...

Nurses preparing war supplies at the supply depot, Denzell House Altrincham, circa 1917, Filmed by Ronald Gow.

Musty Suffer has a job as a waiter, though he lacks considerable in efficiency. Finding that he gets into trouble with every order he serves, he joins...

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can...

South African

Adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House."

Part 2 of the Mysteries of Warsaw trilogy. The plot is unknown, no copies of the film have survived.

An Ebony Film Company short.

Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with...

Unrelated segments of Quentin, Archie, and TR at various times and locations. Medium close view of Quentin wearing a WWI uniform standing by a wooden...

Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business. When his wealthy relatives send him out to f...

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.