1917 Movies

During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope wit...

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

Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, fo...

early comedy short by Triangle Film Corporation

Tom "Wolf" Lowry confronts new settlers in his valley but has a change of heart when he sees Mary Davis.

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strip, by Frederick Burr Opper. Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that...

Little orphaned Kate lives happily in a New England lighthouse with its old keepers, Philemon, Peter and Captain Bartholomew. When Kate falls sick, th...

South African Film

Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a pri...

From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentlem...

It belongs to the silent film series Max und Moritz von heutzutage (Max and Moritz of Today),inspired by the classic German mischievous-youth tales.

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is told through the use of doll animation. Features puppet likenesses of famous movie stars such as Charlie Chapli...

Released on July 9th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he...

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

Lost Dora Film based on the novel "Raffaella o i misteri del vecchio mercato" (1905) by Carolina Invernizio

A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Z...

After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall...