1939 Movies

A short narration on a vacation day spent in Hamburg.

David, an engineer hired to build an industrial facility, arrives at a traditional hacienda on the Peruvian coast. He travels with Ramón, a scatterbra...

Wilno was one of the most important Polish cities, especially in culture. Here, a university where noblists like Czesław Miłosz learned is located.

Reportage showing views of old and new Jerusalem and the modern buildings of Tel-Aviv. It is one of two (along with 'Tel Aviv') reportages made in the...

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

A warship is displayed

Directed by amateur filmmaker Nils Hallström, father of Lasse Hallström.

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling t...

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film Festiva...

Aimed at promoting active Korean participation in the war for the Imperial Japanese Army, the film sees the people of Joseon mobilized into a string o...

Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and...

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

This educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917. It shows, among other things, guns, troop transports in the port of Libau and a bo...

The film shows a red fox looking for food in the wild. The fox is stalking across a forest meadow. Then it stops, undecided, to scent and secure its f...

Independent documentary depicting the farmers’ life of struggle against the snow in Shinjo City, Yamagata.

Film captures a Pentecost pilgrimage in Vallepietra: unmarried women, or “zitelle,” dressed in white with a Madonna figure in black, journey to the Sa...

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with h...

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone...