1938 Movies

Nazi Third Reich propaganda film that used architecture as a statement about "racial accomplishment," and so called "racial superiority." Hitler claim...

An exciting action swashbuckler starring Hayafusa Hideto, aka "The Birdman of Showa Era." The extraordinary action that unfolds without a stuntman or...

Infantry bullets smashing a clay wall shot in slow motion at 1500 fps to give a rough demonstation of the dumdum impact. Temporal resolution of the pr...

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

Starring Miguel Anzures, Narding Anzures, and, Manuel Barbeyto.

The film shows the Victory Day parade dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia and the Defense League and preparations for it.

Join a Roma family as they journey through Kent in this unsentimental look at life on and off the road - superbly captured by the Barnes Brothers

A documentary about the Oxford Group, a propagandist spiritual-movement, for young men and women, with its origins in England. Their message was a che...

Timber Toppers is a 1938 American short film by 20th Century Fox. In 1939, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, One-...

To encourage voters to approve a bond issue, the city commissioner of schools talks about some of the typical problems that students face.

This promotional short for The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) begins by showing the cast and crew arriving at Zion National Park and setting up for locat...

"Moments of Spain. No. 5" (1938). The only newsreel that survives of the 38 that were made for theaters between 1936 and 1938. It is made up of 4 repo...

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities an...

A lot of chopping up wood to set fires to the fields.

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

Pictures from the 1938 Finnish Athletics Championships at Helsinki Stadium.

Animated film about a lantern.

A documentary about market life in Helsinki's Market Square in the summer of 1938. The earliest publicly shown color film in Finland.

This is a propaganda film that promotes Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and orders that Koreans to be ready for battle and armed with...

Venice Film Festival 1939