Most Viewed Year 1917 - 85

Pathé production, depicting the activities of two toddlers at the Beach.

German WW1 documentary.

Any trip to the Alps is guaranteed to have its ups and downs - with sledges, trains and sleighs the perfect transport from top to bottom. This Page's...

Back in 1917 a bunch of revoultionary artists were given a train to go round spreading the word about the revolution. Poets like Mayakovsky and the...

Documentary about military animals.

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

This cartoon from the Great War of 1914-18 isn't quite what the opening would lead you to expect, and the message of the finale isn't quite what the...

A silent theatrical newsreel showing Red Cross work in the war and more.

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

Documentary which outlines some of the stages of the conflict.

Stanislaus Krestowsky lives in a border town close to Germany where he works as a day laborer. He hears about job opportunities at the coal-mine...

The funeral of Hussein Kemal, first Sultan of Egypt, in Cairo, 10 October 1917.

After their wedding, Richard Vaughan and his wife Courtney take up residence in Richard's ancestral home. Courtney, despised by Nanny, the old...

The second film in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, it deals with the life of Lincoln's father, Tom Lincoln.

Likely shot in the summer of 1916, gives a tour of Anchorage, including the Alaska Labor Union Hall log building, which was burned down shortly after.