1917 Movies

An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.

Two segments of TR during a midwestern speaking tour in support of military preparedness. On September 27, 1917, TR visited the officers' training cam...

Italian silent film.

A woman driven by misery to a path of degradation until the inexorable end of which the tango symbolizes, at the same time, her condemnation and her l...

Farmer Leo Bannister is obsessed with his neighbor Auriole Praed, but she finds him too strong. She travels to Paris and marries a young painter, but...

A star-spangled sock on the nose for Kaiser Wilhelm, as this wordplay propaganda cartoon meets war crimes with pun-ishment

The film adapts the legendary story of Santos Vega, a famous folk payador (improvisational gaucho singer) from Argentine folklore. In the narrative—ro...

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief after crafting a homemade tank.

Raymond Griffith out in the wild west, and in the process takes care of the bad guy to save his gal.

Part 3 of the Mysteries of Warsaw trilogy. This film is based on a true incident involving the W. family and a notorious, treacherous murder that took...

A silent documentary capturing Australian troops during the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) between September and October 1917. Filmed across th...

The Apache Indians are on the rampage and the Americans go out against them. They capture all the Indian squaws. Then the braves attack the Americans,...

A lost futurist black-and-white movie.

When an aviator dies performing in a traveling circus, the circus closes and sideshow con men "Sky-High" Billy Wardell and "Domino" Dominick are arres...

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew starred in a series of polite situational comedies, first for Vitagraph and then for their own company, releasing through M...

Widow makes son pose as boy to appear younger to professor, but he is to wed professor's daughter.

After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wif...