1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Duane Michals (1939-1997)

A look at photographer Duane Michal's sequential photo narratives, with voiceover by Michals himself.

Stockholm 1939-1949

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 third entry of Jan Bergman's Pentalogy, we see the chocking new

The Teacher who Defied Hitler

A school in Germany for Jewish children is a safe haven from the Nazi regime, headed by a teacher named Leonore Goldschmidt.

We Lwowie 1939-1945

Professor Jerzy Węgierski, a Home Army officer and Siberian exile, recounts in the film the fate of soldiers from the Lviv District of the Home Army during the Soviet and then German occupation, during Operation Tempest

1939 and All That!

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and provide a timeline, starting with the declaration of war and various wart

1933-1939 Attaquer Hitler ?

Bomber Command: 1939-1945

A condensed yet comprehensive look at the development and operations of RAF Bomber Command, from a fledgling force at the outbreak of hostilities to one of the most potent forces in the World on the final day. The video

Golden September. The Chronicle of Galicia 1939-1941

The film tells the story of the events in Western Ukraine before the outbreak of World War II, the rise of Soviet rule, changes in borders, and the disappearance of entire states from the world map. The film is based on

One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric

Afstandsmarsch N.J.V. 1939

1939/1945: German Women Against Hitler

Coming from all social strata, a priory model citizens of the Third Reich, one thing unites these women: hatred against the Hitler regime and the desire to end the Führer.

Twilight of an Era (1934-1939)

This documentary examines some of the important events in Canada during the Depression years: the Moose River mine disaster, the great drought on the prairies and the introduction of a transatlantic air service between C

1939, la France entre en guerre

Silver Lands The Chronicles of Carpatho-Ukraine 1919-1939.

For centuries, the peoples of Transcarpathia were isolated by politics, geography and poverty. Following WW1, as neighbouring states eyed the strategic and material potential of Transcarpathia, the region experienced a c

Povstání Slovensko 1939-1945

Warsaw in September 1939. Chronicle of Besieged Warsaw

The footage from the Chronicle of besieged Warsaw is probably the work of the cameramen of the so-called 'Starzyński team'. The fragmentary images of bombarded Warsaw, including the ruined streets of the Old Town, the bu

The Royal Air Force at War 1939-1941

Compiled from the Imperial War Museum Official Collection, this film collects rare and previously unseen film material shot by official cameramen on behalf of the RAF before the formation of the RAF Film Production Unit

1919-1939 : la drôle de paix

For many French, who fought bravely, the First World War was to be the "all wars." Yet within two decades, Europe, and France in particular, was slipping again into the barbarism and cruelty of another conflict. The drea

Witness 1939: When War Broke Out

WITNESS 1939 : THE DAY THE WAR BROKE OUT uses the words of interviewees, to add a personal insight into the events of 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War. From a Polish soldier we hear about the invasion of P