1917 Movies

The propaganda documentary film shows the German army in 1916 during preparations and combat operations during one of the biggest battles of the First...

Truly Rural is a silent 1917 comedy short.

Released in 1917.

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Bored with her life as the daughter of wealthy parents, Corinne Chilvers answers an ad in the paper for a woman with a lurid past. Hired to secure a d...

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

A documentary about life in Cape Cod which shows the streets of Provincetown as they were at the time. Children are featured playing hide and seek, sh...

A documentary filmed aboard a German U-Boat during the First World War, featuring footage of the capture and sinking of cargo ships and a private scho...

Documentary on the then-new Chinese Republic, taken over a ten-year period. Footage includes races at Shanghai, imperial ceremonies at the national Te...

South African Film

Footage of the eruption of Mt. Lassen in Northern California. Mt. Lassen erupted from 1914-1917, the last volcano in the Cascades to erupt prior to Mt...

Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.

A Dolly short.

It is not often that your patrons will get a chance to take a trip through a veritable Garden of Eden. On his trip Burton Holmes will show them many s...

A mini-documentary about microscopic animals created from reused footage.

A young Easterner travels west after being rejected by the woman he loves, only to find himself caught in a series of frontier adventures when she arr...