1915 Movies

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

After stealing a man's pipe and smoking his way to the moon, Dreamy Dud decides that smoking isn't for him.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.

Heikki, a drunkard and agitator, steals money from his wife Hanna to go on a speaking tour to a village. There he falls in love with Anna, the beautif...

A series of demonstrations that illustrate some of the scientific principles involved in magnetism.

Manhattan's Claremont Theatre is showing an Edison Company feature. A camera trained on the theater's front doors shows a crowd exiting. Most patrons...

"A very interesting operetta divided into five musical parts, three of which are sung by the cinematographic camera and musical accompaniment."

With these documentary photographs, Oskar Barnack paid tribute to the Lumière brothers by also photographing workers leaving the factory, this time at...

1915 Dutch East Indies silent comedy drama film

A silent film shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan. John Graham, a Jenison farm boy leaves his girlfriend for Grand Rapids after receiving an invitation for...

Footage shot from the steam tram, along the Amsterdam - Monnickendam - Volendam line.

Behold the wonder of the magic pencil! A filmed version of a 'chalk-talk' a popular music hall act.

Passengers arrive at the dock and go aboard the ship. The Lusitania's flag is raised. Passengers, including author Elbert Hubert, pose at the ship's r...

American-made 1915 documentary that follows the Imperial German army as it pushes eastward through Poland during World War I. Some actual battle foota...

A boy meets a squad of Italian soldiers. The commanding officer, fearing to meet the Austrians on the road, asked the boy to get on the ash to lookout...

Boisterous Territorial soldiers compete in a sack race and a 'mop fight' at an Islington garden fete in this upbeat wartime item from the Topical Budg...