1910s Movies

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent...

Released on July 9th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

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

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

Documentary made for the University of York, UK, and DMDA exhibition New Fashion for the New Woman 1900-1950. Footage filmed by University of York...

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on March 25, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

Released on April 1st, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

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

Hats are modelled, then lingerie.

Korea, 1910s: documentary footage filmed in Seoul, at the now-destroyed site of Donuimun (the Great West Gate of the city), and the port of Chemulpo,...

We look first at Westminster Abbey and the Towers of Parliament. And the sight-seeing only starts there as it continues to all the famous buildings...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 1st, 1919.

Released on March 16th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 23rd, 1919.

Released on March 30th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.