1910s Movies

A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War.

1918, shortly before the end of the Great War, an Austrian soldier passes the barrier of the Italian lines and escapes. He is very young, alone,...

1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father,...

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of...

A compilation of British newsreels and films taken from the BFI National Archive; dating from 1913 to 1917, the footage charts the development of the...

The famous ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky struggles with rehearsing his newest choreography - the revolutionary Rite of Spring.

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period

Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 from the perspective of various...

A short musical film that imagines the experience of a teacher and students who witnessed the great fire at the Quaker Oats factory in 1916 from...

1916. René Carpentier is a young French farmer who must leave his home behind in order to fight the Germans and serve his country. On the...

Hats are modelled, then lingerie.

In 1917, Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying Horace Robedaux, a young man of humble prospects. Her parents have not...

Quite possibly the first student film, a whimsical romance shot in 1916 by law students from Washington University in St. Louis.

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a...

A black comedy about a man impersonating a spy in the midst of World War I.