The Year 1939

An exemplary reconstruction of a historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories.

1939

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm

1939

In 1939, after the end of the Civil War, and in the midst of a collective failure of Spanish society, a young Republican will seek revenge, thus starting a wheel of unstoppable violence. His initial cruelty will turn aga

1939

Wilson pays a visit to his friend Werner, in Berlin, in 1939. Elsewhere, a troubled young man seeks psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud in London, but Freud is unwell.

Breakdowns of 1939

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

1939 Battle of Westerplatte

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.

France 1939: One Last Summer

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how t

The Ice Follies of 1939

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

AGFA 1939. Journey Into War

Young Polish filmmaker Michal Wnuk finds an Agfa box of 120 photographs and 2 reels of 16mm film. For the first time, he gets to see World War II through the eyes of his grandfather, who served in the Wehrmacht. Soon Mic

Winter War (1939-1940)

This is a documentary about the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (Talvisota) of 1939-1940. It contains rare and never before seen footage from the official film archives (Sota-arkisto) of the Finnish army.

Hitler & Stalin 1939

The feature-length documentary "Hitler & Stalin 1939" is a montage film created in 1989 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It draws a comparison between two of Europe’s bloodiest dictators. Base

1939-1940: A Strange Defeat

In late summer 1939, the French learned that Adolf Hitler had attacked Poland. On September 3, France entered the war, twenty years after the carnage of World War I. Although France was considered the world’s leading mil

The Drive to the Continent 1939

Swedish amateur film from a trip through Europe a few months before the outbreak of World War II. Denmark, Austria (annexed by Germany a year earlier), Germany, France, and Italy.

Football Thrills of 1939

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics. Reliving past games of Notrè Dame-Navy, Southern California-Illinois, Fordham-Pitt and Princeton-Va

Women at War (1939-1945)

Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World war II.

Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out

In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.

Ferre Grignard 1939-1982

1939-1945 the tragedy

The SIRPA (Information and Public Relations Service of the Armed Forces) unveils in this work, videos of the Second World War, taken from military archives. From the entry into the war of the French army until the victor

Révolution Ecole: 1918 1939

In a Europe traumatized by the First World War, educationalists point the finger of blame: the school, which produced “brave soldiers”. The task now is to build peace and develop a new education for a generation of child

Stockholm 1930-1939

The 20th century is the first century of moving pictures and in the archive of the Swedish public service, a massive amount of footage is collected. In this second entry in Jan Bergman's Pentalogy, we experience a tumult