1948 Movies

Based on the freedom struggle and Quit India Movement of 1942.

Short film by Frank Stauffacher. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Demonstrates light as a form of radiant energy. Explains the principles of reflection and refraction and shows how these principles apply to the scien...

São José do Vale do Rio Preto, 1940. The coffee plantation is depleted, generating consequences for the region: with the decay, commercial houses are...

Short film from 1948, which tells about the State Railways' activities. Fredericia Station plays a central role in the film.

In bringing you this most unusual picture, the producers wish to point out that "Satan and the virgin are the same person!" At no time during her perf...

Made as a promotional film for the new nationalised health services, it looks at a number of hospitals throughout central Scotland including the Edinb...

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and pro...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts a meeting of the young women of the "14th Promotion of Auxiliary and Volunteer Women of the Peruvian Red Cross" to d...

A group of students who put on a radio debate show discuss what capitalism is. While they tend to agree on the general idea, they each have a differen...

Register of the events which occurred between 9 and 15 April 1948 in Bogota as a result of the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting the African Conference in London during September and October of 1948.

A blonde woman drops by her sister's apartment unexpectedly and discovers her brunette sister having sex. While hiding behind a curtain, the blonde si...

Uses a real-life situation to clarify the elements of mutual assent, competent parties, legal bargain and consideration--both in oral and written cont...

A 1948 short film made by Hawley-Lord, Inc., that takes viewers through a tour of a trout hatchery, seeing fish raised from egg to catch.

A post-war film by Włodzimierz Kowańko, created in Argentina

Promotional film for the National Health and Insurance Acts which came into force on 15 July 1948

A portrait of the African American community of Durham, North Carolina, including the Hayti business district later destroyed by urban renewal.

Questionable cycling advice from the 40s.

A BAFTA Special Award winning feature about a family excited at the news of the return of their daughter.