1930s Movies

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral conditions in a Slovak village...

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

The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face and dismiss the illusions of intellectuals about...

This is movie is about the story of the people who keep on fighting after the Spanish Civil War were officially finished. They were republicans who...

　　In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed...

A stop motion 1930s fairy tale follows a monster that yearns to be a part of civilized human society. After an unfortunate mishap, the...

In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...

A documentary short on logging during winter season.

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...

Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.

Lucio, a piano teacher who cannot tolerate his loneliness, decides to rebuild his life based on the different ties he forges with his own students.

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women...

Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.

A journey through different places in 1930s Mallorca, the coast, the countryside, the city, in the company of the evocative music of Isaac...