1939 Movies

The celebration of Professor Kristian Karpalainen's 60th birthday. The nervous birthday boy has lost his manuscript, which took years to write, in a t...

A woman’s husband and daughter are poisoned and killed. Determined to avenge her family's death, she travels to a mass grave to learn the art of lying...

An MGM cartoon adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring Hugh Harman's Bear Family.

“Bitter attack on the policies of the National Government - its laxity over social services and its mistakes in foreign policy - and their consequence...

Resorptive symptoms of intoxication after injection of cocaine in cats. Motor and vegetative arousal stages, tonic-clonic spasms and their spread in t...

Live action and animated toys are used to illustrate the importance of cleanliness and eating good food.

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip),Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run th...

A desert girl goes to Cairo to search for the man from the city who promised to marry her. In the city, she falls into the clutches of a salon owner w...

The city is terrorized by a mystifying, sword wielding woman who is plundering the wealthy citizens and distributing their riches among the poor.

A journalistic survey of Britain's road traffic problems and a plea for the adoption of a National Road Plan.

Cel-animated cartoon made by George Pal for Lever Brothers Rinso Soap Company loosely borrows from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence"...

A farmer 'hires' two scarecrows to guard his crops against voracious attacks by a flock of crows. During one attack a baby crow falls into the farmer'...

Unemployed Anna leaves her son Olavi to be raised by Antti, a shoemaker. When the shoemaker dies, Olavi is sent to an orphanage, from which he runs aw...

Inspired by Olympic fever, the Karamellitehdas candy factory challenges Saron Suklaa to a wooden spoon competition. Factory owner Aukusti mistakenly b...

Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide w...

Biography of Isabel Flores de Oliva (1586-1617),Santa Rosa de Lima. Saint Rose of Lima was born as a personal project of investor Andrés A. Chocano....

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