Most Viewed Year 1917

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joseph W. Girard

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Karalli

The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril:...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Nokke and Jørgensen are tram railgrinders and good friends. Jørgensen drinks too much, while Nokke in vain urges his friend to give up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rasmus Christiansen

An eight-minute fragment of this Italian Golden Age film survives.

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Cast: Leda Gys

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Wynne Matthison

Genre: War

Cast: Lucy Doraine

Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wallace Reid

A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George B. French

A young Russian woman escapes persecution in her country and makes her way to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she meets an American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Warde

Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Constance Talmadge

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henny Porten

A continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: René Cresté

Lonesome Luke, Plumber is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with other Belgian refugees by the Germans. Brought before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry T. Morey

Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Convict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes capture with the help of passenger Henry Beaufort....

Genre: Western

Cast: Harry Carey

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin