Most Viewed Year 1939 - 96

Through a car accident, a young pilot gets to know a girl who works as a fashion model in the city. She leaves her fiancé in front of him and...

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...

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger...

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...

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Chinese film released in 1939.

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...