🏷 Discover The Best 1910s Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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The 1910s was a pivotal decade for cinema, marking the transition from silent films to talkies and the rise of Hollywood as a major film hub, setting the stage for the industry's future.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood (2025) TV Show

8.5 96 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 11

Audience: TV-MA

Story: From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways in this romantic saga that unfolds across time.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), prequel, romance, scottish highlands

Time: world war i, 18th century, 1910s

Place: england

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Paul Anderson

Sophie Rundle

Natasha O'Keeffe

Peaky Blinders (2013) TV Show

8.5 11.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: gypsy, corruption, gangster, outlaw, murder, drugs, criminal, period drama, ...

Time: 1920s, 1910s

Place: england

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Ralph Meeker

Adolphe Menjou

George Macready

Paths of Glory (1957)

8.3 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Plot: army, based on novel or book, general, patriotism, cowardice, idealism, idealist, black and white, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Place: france, germany

Cast

Vittorio Gassman

Alberto Sordi

Silvana Mangano

Folco Lulli

The Great War (1959)

8.1 372 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 137 min.

Story: Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Plot: war

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

George MacKay

Dean-Charles Chapman

Mark Strong

Andrew Scott

1917 (2019)

8.0 13.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

Style: intense

Plot: race against time, british army, survival, soldier, period drama, real time, trenches, trench warfare, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Yuriy Solomin

Maksim Munzuk

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Mikhail Bychkov

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B. Khorulev

Dersu Uzala (1975)

7.9 632 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: Japan, Soviet Union

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: G

Story: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Plot: hermit, friendship, tiger, map, getting lost, fur trapping, exploration, russian soldier, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: siberia

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Winslet

Billy Zane

Kathy Bates

Titanic (1997)

7.9 27.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 194 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Plot: ship, soulmates, shipwreck, atlantic ocean, evacuation, iceberg, titanic, forbidden love, ...

Time: 1910s

Wounded Love (2016) TV Show

7.9 86 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 59

Story: Azize finds herself with her 3 children and mother-in-law in a difficult fight. She raises her children while fighting the difficulties of the war period and her husband's absence whom she loves more than anything. It's about war, love, greed, treason and sacrifice.

Plot: war of independence, based on true story

Time: 1920s, 1910s

Cast

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Thomas Adlam

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William Argent

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John Ashby

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Attwood

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

7.8 675 votes

Genre: Documentary, History, War

Country: United Kingdom, New Zealand

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.

Plot: trenches, trench warfare, armistice day

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Felix Kammerer

Albrecht Schuch

Aaron Hilmer

Moritz Klaus

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

7.7 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Style: shocking, intense

Plot: based on novel or book, infantry, tank, battle, brutality, period drama, german soldier, german army, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Kenneth More

Ronald Allen

Robert Ayres

Honor Blackman

A Night to Remember (1958)

7.6 295 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Plot: ship, atlantic ocean, iceberg, titanic, based on true story, survival, tragedy, disaster, ...

Time: 1910s

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Cast

Omar Sharif

Julie Christie

Geraldine Chaplin

Rod Steiger

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: Italy, United Kingdom

Duration: 200 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Plot: daughter, based on novel or book, love triangle, nurse, suicide attempt, loss of loved one, forbidden love, stepparents, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Julie Andrews

Dick Van Dyke

David Tomlinson

Glynis Johns

Mary Poppins (1964)

7.5 5.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: G

Story: In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: banker, london, england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, magic, nanny, ...

Time: 1910s

Cast

Jacob Anderson

Sam Reid

Assad Zaman

Delainey Hayles

Interview with the Vampire (2022) TV Show

7.5 400 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

Style: shocking, philosophical, suspenseful, romantic

Plot: sibling relationship, based on novel or book, new orleans, louisiana, vampire, interview, immortality, supernatural, ...

Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1910s, ...

Cast

James Dean

Julie Harris

Raymond Massey

Richard Davalos

East of Eden (1955)

7.5 820 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

Plot: individual, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, southern usa, birthday, rebel, big wheel, twin brother, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: california

Cast

Christian Friedel

Ernst Jacobi

Leonie Benesch

Ulrich Tukur

The White Ribbon (2009)

7.5 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Italy, Germany

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Plot: child abuse, authority, pastor, nanny, northern germany, punishment, puritan, incest, ...

Time: 1910s

Cast

Brad Pitt

Anthony Hopkins

Aidan Quinn

Julia Ormond

Legends of the Fall (1994)

7.4 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

Plot: sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, journey around the world, montana, loyalty, ranch, affectation, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s, 1900s

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Emily Blunt

Edgar Ramu00edrez

Jack Whitehall

Jungle Cruise (2021)

7.3 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

Plot: jungle, riverboat, amazon river, based on theme park ride

Time: 1910s

Cast

Gerard Butler

Emmy Rossum

Patrick Wilson

Miranda Richardson

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Plot: mask, dancing, paris, france, based on novel or book, love triangle, obsession, musical, ...

Time: 1910s

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Introduction to 1910s Cinema

The 1910s was a transformative period for the film industry, with significant advancements in technology and storytelling. This decade saw the establishment of the first film studios and the introduction of new genres, such as comedy and drama.

Popular Movie Titles of the 1910s

Some notable films from this era include: * The Birth of a Nation (1915) * Intolerance (1916) * Civilization (1916) These movies not only showcased the artistic and technical capabilities of filmmakers but also reflected the societal issues and cultural values of the time.

Trends in 1910s Television and Film

Although television as we know it today did not exist during the 1910s, the decade laid the groundwork for the development of the medium. The rise of nickelodeons and cinema houses made film an accessible form of entertainment for the masses. Key trends of the 1910s in cinema include: * The dominance of silent films * The emergence of film stars and directors * The growth of the film industry in Hollywood

Discovering Hidden Gems

For those interested in exploring the cinematic landscape of the 1910s, there are numerous hidden gems to discover. Many classic films from this era are now available for streaming or on DVD, offering a unique glimpse into the past. By watching these movies, viewers can gain a deeper understanding of the historical context and cultural influences that shaped the film industry.