1930s Movies

The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne in Victoria. It shows the city’s...

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

Paris of the 1930s, in the world of little rascals. Loulou gus is in the shade. To get a clean crust, it needs sorrel, fuzzy, dough. Especially since...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

On a farm in 1933, a piglet is sold to a family in Copenhagen. Piggy is a pig with greater appetite than brain and does not know that the good food...

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings...

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...

Spain, early 20th century. Hildegart is raised and educated by his mother Aurora as the subject of a social experiment, to be the first truly free...

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their...

The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls...

In the mid 1930s, a mobster breaks out of jail, causing his boss to hire one of his hitmen, so the escaped convict doesn't rat them out. Until...

A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his...