1917 Movies

Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.

Japanese horror movie from 1917.

Filmed by American cinematographer Merl la Voy with the French forces in 1916 on the battlefields of the Somme and Verdun. Footage originally released...

Animated puppets, not drawings, were the staple of Chicago-based Howard Moss's films. These juvenile shorts frequently featured caricatures of screen...

The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who becomes...

Farmer Al Falfa's pipe is stolen, smoked and buried by his frisky dog Fido. Some frantic chases ensue, with the farmer after Fido and Fido after vario...

Musty becomes a carpenter's assistant. He decides that a twin brother would be a great help to him in his work, so he makes one out of wood. Thrown ou...

The first advertising film ever made in Portugal. Aiming to popularize a new brand of biscuits, Caldevilla hired the Puortollanos and had them climb...

A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

This cartoon from the Great War of 1914-18 isn't quite what the opening would lead you to expect, and the message of the finale isn't quite what the p...

Lanczy, the son of the handyman of the village falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter. The innkeeper promises his daughter to Lanczy if he is wil...

Part 2, found at the New Zealand Film Archive, zeros in on urban Chinese workers—peddlers, barbers, cooks, street performers, laborers, and rickshaw d...

Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother...

Tomboy Jane Dwight’s father strikes oil on their farm and becomes smitten with young millionaire James Thornton when he comes to purchase the land. Sh...

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...