Most Viewed Year 1939 - 97

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an...

Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw he gets into Buck's gang....

The first Hong Kong produced film to feature an all-female cast of 36 actresses. The ambitious project follows its 36 female characters, all of whom...

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and...

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

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.

Slobbish magician Ali Kazam tries to win the princess' hand in marriage by producing a large quantity of jewels, but is challenged by a youth (our...

This Traveltalks short focuses on the city's preservation of the architecture, apparel, and customs of the antebellum South.

Journey to Brazil in the 1930s through its riches: tobacco in Sao Salvador, silk and coffee in Sao Paulo and sugar cane in Rio de Janeiro.

Discover Brazil, its wildlife, its riches (rubber, Brazil nuts) and its major cities along the Amazon River (Manaos, Santarem, Belem).

The story of Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man to take her father’s place in the army, was invoked during China's War of Resistance...

Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow's thriving market squares to a piano-and-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as...

The first in a series called "Music Hall Vanities". Pinky Tomlin sings one of his own songs and Betty Atkinson, Hollywood's first choice for...

Footage of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition, led by Dr. Cecil Thomas (C.T.) Madigan, with a team of nine. In 1929 CT Madigan undertook a series of...