1910s Movies

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...

Released on the 24th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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

"A pioneering Norweigan climbing film. The filming was made in 1918 by film photographer Gunnar Nilsen Vik. The film begins with some pictures of Ola...

Released on the 9th of November, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on October 20th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Scenes: Royal Northwest Mounted Police in action; the commissioner; the prairies of Saskatchewan; glimpses of the Blackfoot Indian tribes; visiting...

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on the 17th of June, 1918.

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

Released on October 2nd, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 6th of October, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 8th of July, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the first of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A scenic documentary record of a climb up to Mount Assiniboine, the 'American Matterhorn' in the Canadian Rockies.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 22nd, 1919.

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...

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 30th, 1919.

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...