Most Viewed Year 1938 - 100

A farmer builds a television and tunes in on nude girls.

A short creation by Douglass Crockwell that can be found on the Unseen Cinema box set.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

An anonymous amateur film, random product of the ‘grand’ history from the point of view of the middle class. The family’s camera...

Before his political career, Urho Kekkonen (1900–1986) was an athlete on the national level. Later he served as head of the Finnish Olympic...

A 1938 film released by 20th Century-Fox involving European history. Pieces of it were repurposed in Frank Capra's Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer.

Documentary about the inauguration of the National Stadium on December 3, 1938, attended by 80,000 spectators. President Arturo Alessandri is...

his film shows the work of the mobile syphilis detection and treatment unit of McIntosh, Glynn, and Camden counties in rural southeastern Georgia....

Various shots of Adolf Hitler standing on a balcony with Benito Mussolini and King Vittorio-Emanuele (Victor Emmanuel) III and the Queen of Italy,...

A group of students are bored while spending their summer days in Warsaw on the Vistula River. At the suggestion of a friend, they decide to go on a...

This short silent film was made by the German 'völkisch' photographer Hans Retzlaff for the 'Institut für Deutsche Volkskunde der...

Radical journalist Diwakar runs a printing press and edits a newspaper, much to the disapproval of his authoritarian middle-class father who believes...

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...

A naughty pilgrim boy holds an Indian boy hostage causing a war to break out, Nicky Nome comes to save the day with a Chevrolet.

Gerald Thompson's record of the 1938 Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition. The first natural history survey of all three islands (Grand...

Kleur en Glorie Onzer Tropen, "Colour and Glory of our Tropics", is a travel documentary shot in 1938 by Alphons Hustinx showing the prewar Indonesia...