1917 Movies

Queen Mary and Princess Mary visit women workers at Woolwich dockyard. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A series of war pictures, "Germany and Its Armies of To-day," has been brought to this country by the Germanic Official War Film, Inc., and are now ready for state rights release.

On a military base, we follow the preparation of the Austrian planes and their takeoff to fly over and observe the Italian enemy. The pilot is equipped with a camera and maps. The strategic information collected by the captain is next passed on to staff headqu...

French Naval Academy students go through training

The inhabitants of Amsterdam enjoy themselves on the ice on the Herengracht. Skaters in Amsterdam get ready for their trip to Monnickendam and Marken. Along the way, the skaters pass by Ilpendam. In Broek in Waterland, skaters cross a bridge to reach another p...

Neurologist Max Nonne demonstrates a therapeutic procedure and its successes by means of suggestion in hypnosis for functional-motor disorders that arose as a result of the effects of the First World War.

Separated from her lover Richard Mallaby and left alone in the East to raise her child, a heartbroken Mary Livingston travels West to survive.

An experimental short film by Luis Camas.

There's little sign of war in this attractively tinted film of London landmarks (the Dutch intertitles are mostly self-explanatory),but the film's propagandist intention becomes clear with the knowledge it was shot on 26 September 1917, immediately after a su...

A silent film showing graphic scenes of trench warfare as the British defeat the Germans.

Gymnastic routines performed at the Joinville Military Academy

This film shows Haarlem, Netherlands, at its best: the St. Bavo Cathedral, street scenes, historic buildings, and beautiful parks and villas. Many of these shots were filmed from sailing boats, moving trams, and a church tower.

The rich uncle of "Hopeful John" objects to Betty's sister Mabel's upcoming marriage to his nephew, as he considers the family--especially Betty--to be lazy gold-diggers. Betty bets him that she can make $1000 in 30 days. If she can't then Mabel won't marry hi...

Women of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) are shown creating pottery.

French WW1 documentary.

Funerals of Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro. "The great São Paulo; The arrival of the body to the gare of Praia Formosa; The exit from the iron to the cemetery of São João Batista; Associations that were represented and several funeral tributes."