Most Viewed Year 1939 - 97

Newly married copywriters become seduced by life with the country-club set, until mounting bills and legal troubles snap them back to reality.

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.

Spanish civil war documentary.

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger...

The animals are having a swimming contest. The strutting Saru-kun, a monkey, can't bring himself to admit that he cannot swim, and puts himself...

A poetic history of the British Isles and it self-sufficient industries. The film is divided into four chapters: 1.Eriskay; 2.Guernsey; 3.Inner Farne...

Going Places With Graham McNamee (1939–1940) is a news series featuring radio broadcaster Graham McNamee as reporter.

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with...

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.

Maurice Farinet, a young Swiss peasant, has found a gold deposit in the mountains and starts producing counterfeit money. He is arrested but manages...

Short subject about futuristic fashion styles.

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

Footage of the Nueva Vizcaya Association community members engaged in leisure activities in and around Chicago.

An inter-state Filipino migrant league baseball championship in front of the Field Museum of Natural History.

A short film about Jewish life in Polish town located in the East was made a few months before World War II, that's destroyed its life forever.

A documentary that shows us Jewish life in pre-war cities of Eastern Europe.

Documentary photographs of Warsaw by an unknown author, probably dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. The film begins with a map indicating...