1917 Movies

Professor Bjørn has spent years and months developing a serum against cancer. When he finally succeeds, he pays for it with his life – the professor’s...

Scenes of devastation following the war in San Martino Del Carso between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire that started in 1915.

Mutt plays tricks on Jeff with a special potion that makes him invisible.

Llife in the towns behind the front during the autumn of 1916. The intertitles make clear that at least some of it was shot in Cambrai and Roubaix, Fr...

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial metro...

A Italian documentary short from 1917.

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...

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 31st of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

This film is a story from the Mahabharatam where Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas, resists the advances of Keechaka, a lustful general in the court...

Early animated short by Gregory La Cava

Released on March 19th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1917 travelogue.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

Documentary which outlines some of the stages of the conflict.

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr. Holmes...

Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to see...