Alibi Mark

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

Romance of Louisiana

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

Hats and Dogs

Rags Ragland and Joey Faye adapted their famous stage routines for the film, notably performing the signature Pascooniak (later known as Floogle Street) hat company sketch. A dog destroys a man's hat. The destruction for

Munich, or Peace in Our Time

A television documentary directed by Marcel Ophüls examining the Munich Conference of September 28, 1938, when European leaders met to avert the outbreak of war. Through archival documents and interviews, the film recons

Swing Cat's Jamboree

"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quartette play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.

Der Blaufuchs

Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's marr

Romance Road

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.

The Movies March On

A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner

The Fox

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true stor

The Great Philips Review

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

At Home

Kristallnacht, the November pogroms

On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis initiated anti-Jewish violence throughout the German Reich. Hundreds of photographs and films rediscovered in archives provide insight into these pogroms. 30,000 Jews were d

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.

Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color

A collection of twenty-six animated shorts in color starring Mickey Mouse, released between 1935 and 1938. Cartoons: The Band Concert, Mickey's Garden, Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Judgement Day, On Ice, Mickey's Polo

Brave Little Tailor

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real.

Snowed-In at Camp IV

Record of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga Parbat. In June 1938, the vanguard of the German expedition to the Himalayas, after many laborious detours through the labyrinth of the glaciers, had reached Camp IV at 6200m