1938 Movies

Kalajoki: Kallankarit in the Gulf of Bothnia.

The circus arrives in a small town on the coast of Peru. It is managed by the unscrupulous Orsini, who is facing financial problems. Orsini plans with...

Short documentary about cyclones.

[A toddler] refuses to eat his spinach and had fed some of it to the dog before the cracker ringmaster promises a show if he finishes it. He does and...

A butterfly sailor returns to port aboard a turtle battleship to marry his butterfly girlfriend. The courtship runs smoothly and wedding plans are mad...

A 20th Century Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone travelogue short released in December 1938, depicting Scandinavian “Viking” history and landscapes. Produ...

Record of the Japanese expedition to Nanda Kot (6861m) in Himalaya in 1936. The expedition was organized by the Mountaineering Club of the Rikkyo Univ...

A silent short documentary produced by Dix-Film.

Don Manuel, an old and wealthy landowner residing in Lima, is an uncompromising father. He has married off his eldest daughter, Victoria, to a diploma...

A good racehorse is a good business in 1938, as shown in this Vyborg region horse-breeding film.

A short directed by John Hanau and Hans Nieter

A story of the priest who risked and faced conviction rather than reveal something told to him in confession. This forms the main theme of the picture...

Shots taken at night of the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, showing the building, statues, and fountains lit up by neon lights.

Long John Silver forces the Captain to bet his house in a cockfight. It's John's champion rooster, the Honduras Hurricane, versus the Captain's: a scr...

In Ub Iwerks' The Frog Pond, many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built o...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender.

A young pastor feels attracted to Martin, a fisherman, and his fiancée Raili. Martin, in turn, is in love with Paula, a shop assistant at a beach stor...

One of a group of seven documentaries made for the 1938 Empire Exhibition under the supervision of John Grierson, the film was part of a campaign to i...