1910s Movies

Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem...

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

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...

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable...

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...

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

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...

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.

This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.

First film by a woman and the first film directed at a child audience in Argentina