Movies: 1930s

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; t...

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....

A ruthless thief has a change of heart after being mortally wounded and wants to carry the town's cross on the Way of the Cross in order to save his soul....

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Nazism in a Swedish industrial community in the 1930s....

Set in the period before the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chinese patriots destroy the Japanese's drug works in Peking....

An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to...

A customer (Karl Valentin) tries to buy a record in a record store but can not decide what he actually wants. The saleswoman (Liesl Karlstadt) tries to help him – which is in vain, as the customer eventually damages various records and even a complet...

A photographer goes on a business trip for three days. His helper (Karl Valentin) and the apprentice (Liesl Karlstadt) would prefer it to close the store during the absence of the boss. They only photograph customers reluctantly and cause all kinds o...

A teacher in a remote village gets hindered by zealot members of the community who still believe in old superstitions....

Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939....

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy....

A Swedish short film taking us inside Värmdö church for the Christmas holiday....

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars....

An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence....

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood ...