Most Viewed Year 1916 - 80

A chunky British man (actually looks like John Bull) is seen preparing a strange tank / armoured vehicle for battle - he cranks it up with a handle. ...

A man experiences peculiar situations.

A silent cartoon with Charlie Chaplin.

An early Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

Images from a camp for Belgian refugees in the Brabant town of Uden, Netherlands.

An advertising film where posters are presented about the festival held on 9 July at the stadium in Amsterdam.

Historical reel showing the First Newfoundland Regiment participating in a church parade in Ayr, Scotland, where they are stationed.

Christopher Race is engaged to take in his Scarlet Runner Ponsonby Fitzgerald, an eccentric novelist, and a party of friends to a ball. The affair as...

Christopher Race, forced by his uncle to earn his own living for a change, buys Scarlet Runner, an exceptionally fine automobile. He at first tries...

Early claymation from a series called Miracles in Mud with caricatures of well-known people.

Stop-motion and lightning sketch animated propaganda short from World War One, notably featuring a caricature of Chaplin defeating a zeppelin.

Two-minute excerpt from one of the World War One propaganda series by Dudley Buxton and Anson-Dyer, featuring a lightning sketch of Kaiser Wilhem...

Brief documentation of the preparations for the launch of a reconnaissance balloon, and then the take-off itself. This takes place on a lake in a...

'Sailor's parrot gets soot on maid's pillow and she is accused of flirting with sweep.' (British Film Catalogue)

Unidentified film, 1916

Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria tour London by carriage. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

At the homefront, a man must find butter in order to convince a girl to marry him.

German propaganda film about the importance of buying war bonds.

Jack Langdon is sent by a San Francisco company to manage its Santa Clara mine in Peru. Gov. Juan Maria Barada, who disputes the American claim to...