1938 Movies

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger),who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his brother...

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

A 1938 NFB short. Part of a series called 'Canada Cameos' that traces the history of buffalo in Alberta, it's threat of extinction and the efforts to...

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has fough...

A tour of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1938, from the Andre de la Varre "Screen Traveler" series.

A precious animated short from the pioneer of Italian animation Liberio Pensuti, commissioned by the Italian National Fascist Federation against Tuber...

An interfamily romance in a small town where two families are rivals with each other.

Technicolor tour of Mt. Vesuvius and surrounding area.

A mother blackbird hatches out two normal offspring and one featherless nitwit. The nitwit refuses to learn to fly and learn the other aspects of bird...

In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we find...

A look at show-business through the lives of cabaret dancing girls Teresa and Linka. When their theatre is closed down, they have to move to a small t...

After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Tho...

Henkel ad by Pinschewer.

A rich bachelor, Pavel Haken, tries - with the help of his faithful servant - to escape the courtship of marriageable young ladies. They meet at a lad...

Village drama. The widowed daughter-in-law of the old woman Buryjovka, called Kostelnička, is very proud of her pretty and well-bred ward Jenůfa. The...

About how the operation to rescue the members of the expedition 'North Pole-1' under the leadership of Ivan Papanin took place.

This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.

Shots taken at night of the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, showing the building, statues, and fountains lit up by neon lights.

The most daring director in interwar Latvia, Vilis Lapenieks, who around the same time began work on the box office hit Zvejnieka dēls (The Fisherman'...