1917 Movies

Women's football in Gävle in 1917. Girls in puffy shorts and long socks play on grass.

Sailing boats

An experimental short mixing live performance with film.

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Casey takes a beating from apartment tenants Mr. and Mrs. Little, so in revenge, Casey disguises himself as the woman who Mr. Little expects to meet in the park, with Mrs. Casey bringing Mr. Little's wife to observe.

Documenting the tenth of twelve battles near the Isonzo River bordering Italy and Austria-Hungary. World War One.

Queen Mary serves at a soup kitchen in Stepney. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

French WW1 documentary

Pathé turns its eye homeward in this edition of its History of the War series which looks at the internment of "enemy aliens" in Dorset and Surrey. It's not clear if the camp depicted is Frimley in Surrey or Dorchester in Dorset, but the imposing brick walls o...

A soldier's father dreams the food economy helps to win the war.

A miner is swindled by a crooked, fast-talking con man. The con man is the father of Wallace, who is the fiancé of Marjorie, the miner's daughter. The old miner dies shortly after losing everything, and when Wallace returns to the town to be its doctor, she wi...

Cashiered out of the army by what he believes was an unjust court-martial, the man known as The Weakling wanders aimlessly in the desert and is found by cowboys from the Lazy Y Ranch. They clean him up and give him a job on the ranch as a cowboy. He soon finds...

Intent upon ridding his town of crime, Dead Shot Baker, the beloved sheriff of Wolfville, drives a band of outlaws to the outskirts, where they hold up the stagecoach and carry two girls away to the hills.

Traveling to Reno, Nevada to visit her brother Sam, inexperienced romantic Wanda Carson playfully adopts the persona of a divorcée within the local colony, passing off her companion's baby as her own and quickly becoming a favorite among the residents. While t...