Most Viewed Year 1939 - 96

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

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...

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

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Newly married copywriters become seduced by life with the country-club set, until mounting bills and legal troubles snap them back to reality.

“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...

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

The animals are having a swimming contest. The strutting Saru-kun, a monkey, can't bring himself to admit that he cannot swim, and puts himself...

A fox family is starving, the father with a bandaged foot and crutch. Hunters and dogs roar through and start hunting down one of the fox boys, but...

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

A dog saves the life of a vivisectionist's son.

Chinese film released in 1939.

Shoe clerk Krazy gets beaned on the noggin, and the entire contents of his shoe shop comes to (musical) life! Features caricatures of Mae West,...

On his return from Paris, where he had co-founded the “musical artists” group, Charles Blanc-Gatti set up Colorfilm in Montreux (1938),...

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

The Maharaja of Banispur (Sardar Mansoor) sends his most trusted official, Surendra (Navinchandra), to Bombay to retrieve a large amount of money...

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...

On board the US naval vessel "Chelan" as it stops at Attu Island, Alaska and the crew carries out lifeboat drill. Isabel Hutchison has her photograph...

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...