1900s Movies

Rare documentary footage from around 1900 depicts the mood of life in Berlin at the turn of the century.

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

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

Austria and the Alps is the title of a 18 minutes travelogue by Burton Holmes produced to be distributed by the Paramount. The travelogue consisted...

In the early 20th century, Helen Keller experienced a tumultuous time at Radcliffe College of Harvard University when her rapidly expanding worldview...

"A far-fetched, overdrawn story of two men who try to prove their courage and devotion to the same girl, by getting flowers she has expressed a...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released on December 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 14th, 1919.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 6th, 1918.

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards...

"In this film of the 'Vagabond Adventure Series', Tom Terris takes us to New Zealand in a kind of travelogue film. We accompany a client and a...

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

Released on July 13th, 1919.

Released on August 10th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 28th of February, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.