1917 Movies

Helmed by Giovanni Pastrone, with Segundo de Chomón ably handling the stop-motion animation segment, The War and the Dream of Momi is equal parts patr...

A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been trunca...

Elinor Petipon has been arrested as suspected of the murder of her husband. She seems to have lost her memory, and confronted with the husband's body,...

Designated to write an article on the high price of food, reporter June Justice visits the tenement districts where there have been food riots and whe...

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gon...

Peggy sells newspapers on the streets of Chicago, saving her money until she can afford to open a small newsstand called the "News Emporium". Although...

A private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he...

Patches, a beautiful girl, lives with her foster-mother Liza Biggs, who dresses her in rags. She is surprised to see Judas, the overseer, give Liza a...

Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money in is valueless, though Fleming has discovered a...

Bored by her country life and misunderstood by her parents, Emma Rolfe marries Dr. Charles Bovar, an older man whose dedication to his medical practic...

Hetty Pepper (a discharged department store worker) and Cecilie (a starving miniature-painter) try to make a beef and potato stew in a low-rent New Yo...

An early Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

Because he desires to shield the father of the girl he loves, though he suspects another to be the real culprit, Clavering takes upon himself the repr...

Stephen Stephani leaves Nordhoff with his daughter Mary to visit Zandria, an enemy country, where he tries to steal the war plans of the hostile natio...

A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson.

Returning to the village of Bayport after twenty-two years, retired sea captain Cyrus Whittaker finds the community under the power of political boss...

Count Merlin pursues an alchemical quest requiring the blood of young men to complete his rituals. An early version of the vampire on film.