1939 Movies

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

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 warship is displayed

The history of America's familiar Stars and Stripes flag is chronicled, alongside the historical events that shaped America from its colonial roots th...

A Secrets of Life short.

An Educational film made for Japanese children about Railways. At the time, Japan was suffering from a shortage of Oil and their railways were incredi...

Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow's thriving market squares to a piano-and-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemb...

Istvan Bors was adapted from the popular Hungarian stage play by Sandor Hunyady, with a few songs added to the mixture. The title character, played by...

Promotion for the newspaper Uus Suomen. The documentary film includes images of the newspaper's printing and statistical information about the newspap...

Salon Lindblad's accessories fashion show.

A game of bowls at the Whitevale and Kingswood Bowling Clubs, Glasgow.

Short Documentary Film.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

A 1939 film report gives a brief overview of the then permanent exhibition of the Museum of Prince Paul (Karadjordjević),in which prehistoric artifac...

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone...

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an enthusia...

Introduction to the Valaam Monastery.