Free 1910s movies, cartoons and shorts
66 titles on the air now, made between 1910 and 1919 - about 32 hours of viewing in all. 19 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 47 are shorts. 66 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
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Every title from the 1910s that is on the air at Starlite TV right now, across all of our channels, sorted by year. Films published before 1931 are in the U.S. public domain because their copyright terms have expired.
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Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 12 min · Saturday Morning
Winsor McCay was one of the greatest newspaper cartoonists of all time, creator of the lavish fantasy comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. He also toured the vaudeville circuit with a "chalk talk" act, drawing pictures live in front of audiences. - Intolerance (1916) 197 min · Silver Screen
After the enormous commercial success of The Birth of a Nation (1915), D. W. Griffith was the most powerful director in America — and one of the most criticised. The NAACP and many others condemned The Birth of a Nation for its racist stereotypes and its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. - The Beautiful Leukanida (1912) 10 min · Saturday Morning
- Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum (1918) 5 min · Saturday Morning
- Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916) 5 min · Saturday Morning
- Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat (1915) 10 min · Saturday Morning
- Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective (1917) 9 min · Saturday Morning
- The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915) 6 min · Saturday Morning
- How a Mosquito Operates (1912) 6 min · Saturday Morning
- Snow White (1916) 63 min · Family Room
