1938 Movies

The Mysterious Cowboy and his sidekick Pronto ride after the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.

World Window #8: Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek

This is a Labour Party film from 1938, featuring footage from around New Zealand pre 1938. This film predates the National Film Unit and is part of A...

"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were...

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions abou...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

On a train journey, Jaeger Corporal Martti falls in love with Sabina, a dancer from Liivi, who has also caught the eye of Baron Rolf. The intrigues of...

This period fantasy is a tale about a good general Angar (Chandramohan) who is corrupted by ambition. Echoing 'Macbeth', the loyal Angar is told by th...

Winterlife in Suonikylä, Finland.

Ethnographic documentary presenting the nature, people and their concerns in the Land of Motilor.

Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school a...

News clip parody using footage from earlier Walter Lantz cartoons.

A rural employee leaves his wife and mother to seek work in the city.

A visit to Singapore, an essential port city in Britain's empire, established in 1813 when Raffles negotiated its separation from the independent Mala...

A Terrytoons cartoon.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender.

An adventurer poses as a prince and tries to take rich and pretty Dolly away from the man she loves by stirring up trouble.Heartbroken, Dolly is ready...

The staff at a large big-city hospital is all bothered and nervously awaiting the arrival of a patient, named Elmer, and the doctors and nurses are bu...

The lazy but resourceful farmhand Hemminki and the bookworm Lauri initially struggle to cope in the army, but the company commander's cook Mimmi and t...