1949 Movies

Aviation holiday in Tushino - July 17, 1949.

The first Latin American documentary focused on Indigenous peoples, filmed on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca.

This 1949 popular science film tells the story of one of Moscow's most famous landmarks—Dynamo Stadium. Viewers learned about the sports facility's co...

This film is an official record of the operations made by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) between November 1947 and Apri...

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East...

A short film about respecting and preserving nature.

Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.

Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious...

Mok Ming moves into Po Tak-yan’s old mansion. Po's mistress, the songstress Tsi Law-heung, has died in it. Her spirit haunts the mansion as she is unb...

Large numbers of children and adults can be seen enjoying themselves, splashing about in the water or diving from the high-boards.

Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard M...

Three-minute-long commercial for a cigarette brand.

From Cathedral Film’s “Life of St. Paul” series. Paul and Barnabas take the Gospel to Antioch, where Paul teaches that all people, even slaves, are eq...

A story about an innocent man who was tried for murder but while being transported by ship to a prison sank and luckily he escapes to an island inhabi...

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the sta...