1949 Movies

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

During socialism, Konzum was a chain of grocery and general stores, but it was also a place where unexpected events took place after dark. In the poet...

Little Audrey helps a lost dream find his way back to Dream Land.

Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme fatale coerces him into murder and blackmail.

Reconstruction, operations of Suomen Huolto.

Set during the dark years of the German occupation of Crete, it depicts the resistance movement, the heroism of the locals, acts of sabotage, and the...

A film by Phani Majumdar.

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

The passengers of an airplane wrecked in the Negev desert are rescued and brought to a budding Zionist community (The film was shot at kibbutz Revivim...

The greatest adventure story of our time. Filmed for the first time in the Philippines in thrilling sepia tone and exciting natural color.

Documentary directed by Noda Shinkichi

In Australia with its rapid development there is a need for insistence upon town planning. This film illustrates what has already taken place in our l...

India has finally won independence from British rule, and there are signs of progress among the population. One such sign of progress is in the villag...

This documentary film traces the Marshall Plan's role in revitalizing Germany's coal industry after World War II. The Marshall Plan enabled German vol...

An interview short with Thorvald Madsen done in 1949.