1917 Movies

Footage from Northern Sweden.

A red-tinted documentary record of a large petroleum fire.

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Gymnastic routines performed at the Joinville Military Academy

Queen Mary and Princess Mary visit women workers at Woolwich dockyard. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Early animated short by Gregory La Cava

A soldier's father dreams the food economy helps to win the war.

The rich uncle of "Hopeful John" objects to Betty's sister Mabel's upcoming marriage to his nephew, as he considers the family--especially Betty--to b...

Women of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) are shown creating pottery.

French WW1 documentary.

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

Women's football in Gävle in 1917. Girls in puffy shorts and long socks play on grass.

Pathé turns its eye homeward in this edition of its History of the War series which looks at the internment of "enemy aliens" in Dorset and Surrey. It...

Shows the symptomatology of "shell-shock" in 18 British "other rankers" and its treatment by two leading R.A.M.C. neurologists in two British military...

French Naval Academy students go through training

WW1 documentary

Female dancers, shot partly in slow motion.

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...

George V and Queen Mary pay a morale boosting visit to the dry docks in the north-east of England in June 1917. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occas...