1910s Movies

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

La Pampa, Argentina. Don Genaro Gran hires gaucho Juan to capture horses and tame them. In his quest, Juan rescues a girl in trouble whose beauty...

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

Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel...

A story of a young boy called Bobesh and his funny adventures.

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

When Vivienne, a spirited young writer born of wealth, meets Henri, a young farmhand with nothing but the shirt on his back, these star-crossed...

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...

A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia. Publicly demanding...

A story about 10-year-old Ruth and her life in Jakobstad in the years 1917-1918, during the Finnish Civil War. Based on a novel by Anna Bondestam.

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.

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

Hats are modelled, then lingerie.