1949 Movies

"General Motors in India" is a 1949 documentary co-directed by Paul Zils and Fali Bilimoria. The film explores General Motors' operations in India dur...

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

A social drama that focuses on the struggles of a cherished daughter as she navigates societal expectations and family conflicts that threaten her per...

Serenade at Meryem (Ma'zafa muhda ila Maryam) is a film by Norbert Gernolle with the Algerian opera singer Mahieddine Bachtarzi, filmed in Fez in 1946...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subjec...

Short documentary about tourist and sightseeing attractions in Tatra Mountains, Poland.

Feature film by Gustav Ucicky

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Father dances to Jazz in the kitchen with the maid, his family won't tolerate his behaviour anymore. And now he has to deal with Uncle Adam's strange...

This anthropological documentary examines the Festival of St. James and its roots in the town of Loíza, Puerto Rico.

Brief summary of the Berlin airlift taken from newsreel material.

Trade union film portraying dock work

Set in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition, it follows a young woman whose life is disrupted as she migrates to a new country, while longing for her l...

Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own aff...

There's a wedding in the forest and all the animals are getting ready.

Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of...

The film serves as a historical and propaganda piece focused on post-WWII reconstruction and the socialist mobilization of the working class.

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of...

This Traveltalk series short begins with a look at Michigan's major educational institutions, which started as agricultural schools. We then visit the...