1939 Movies

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were...

A film about the history of Sweden's Social Democratic Women's Association.

short film by Bernard Lyot. Joseph Leclerc, a filmmaker of news reportage and astronomer, edited Lyon's film studies posthumously.

A bum is sleeping by the road when Scrappy roars up on his motorcycle -- he's a messenger in this cartoon -- to give him a telegram. His uncle has die...

A Travelogue discussing Native American customs, artworks and culture in the then-present day of 1939.

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

Mothers of Today features the first motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, best known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the 'Yiddishe Ma...

Indramalati is the second Assamese language film, directed by the great Assamese poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala Jyotiprasad Agarwala wrote the story of In...

Pharmacist Pavlovský has a modern and sporty son, Karel, also a pharmacist, whom he would like to marry. He therefore sends him to Kutná Hora to live...

A cautionary tale about wealth not bringing happiness. The blind Mohan (Kumar) lives in a village with his ward Radha (Madhuri). He wins a fortune wit...

Porky runs a poultry farm. All is well, if a bit unconventional, until the wolf attacks.

Film about Finnish war hero.

The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin. Living in poverty...

The story of the conquest of the Colorado River by 'Buzz' Holmstron, an Oregon filling station attendant, who was the first man ever to navigate the r...

The Vertigo of the Condors is the first film of a new stage in Peruvian cinematographic technique. New filming methods have been employed in accordanc...

A Record of the Great Social Experiment of "Evacuation". During the first three days of war one million children were moved to places of safety in the...