1948 Movies

Images from a train ride through Sweden.

Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.

In 1948, the U.S. nuclear stockpile consisted of approximately 50 atomic bombs. Since the industrial complex to produce more nuclear weapons was not f...

A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraor...

Bank clerk Aarno Harjus is dismissed from his job due to false criminal allegations, and at the same time his wife leaves him. With the help of his fr...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 March 1948.

Known as Great China's most charming star at the time, Li Lihua starred as Zhao Lingru, a female Robin Hood-esque hero who fights for the poor. Her br...

As well as a story on emergency measures to keep the nation's fuel supplies moving during freezing weather, it includes a feature on Dunfermline miner...

A Singaporean production directed by B.S. Rajhans.

Join the Minstrel Show on the farm where animals show their talents. The audience asks for something from the seller. Watch for the gag where he uses...

An evocation of the childhood of the great French writer François-René de Chateaubriand at his father's château in Comboug in Brittany. The text suppo...

A loosely ethnographic document from the late 1940s from Uimaharju, North Karelia. At that time, it was completely free to dump the nest, even directl...

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift, from the initial closure of the city in 1948 through 1949. It ex...

A swordswoman joins hands with fellow warriors to save her son from the evil monk.

Manu unwittingly accompanies a fugitive conman across the French border into Italy. Agreeing to meet later, the conman doesn't arrive at the arranged...

The Leslie Bell Singers work during the day and rehearse at night for the joy they find in singing. Here they present widely differing numbers: Echo S...