1939 Movies

A narrative story of the planting of field windbreaks and shelterbelts in the prairie states, where farmers cooperate with the United States Forest Se...

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

The findings of Danish paleontologist Peter Lund. The landscape of the region of Lagoa Santa, the men, the houses and the animals. Some of the caves f...

Big diesel machines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his old steam shovel, Mary Anne, out of business, until Mike agrees to tackle a big job.

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

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling t...

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and began to...

The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second World War.

An animated short made for the Swiss National Exhibition 1939 in Zurich.

How the beavers rebuilt after the flood and drove the wolf away from their island.

Animated film about the friend of all the Moscow children, the giant Uncle Stepa.

Fashions for active sport and evening wear.

At the eve of the Second World War, one of the first color films, which has preserved for us the parade of athletes, which was held in 1939 on Red Squ...

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

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.

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.