1930s Movies

A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.

When the paperhangers go on strike, guests at a newlyweds' housewarming party try to finish the job with disastrous results.

Set in the period before the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chinese patriots destroy the Japanese's drug works in Peking.

A short film written by Michelle Crane and directed by Francis Castelli Preston, 1972. This true story explores the secrets we keep within and why....

The cartoon's main character is a girl living in the times of the Famine and personally experiencing all the terrors of this major crime against...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and faith will win over everyone.

Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only to be swindled by scheming managers. Penniless...

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...

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...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

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...

Happy & Gay is a revisionist history document reflecting the form of a 1930's-styled cartoon musical misadventure. Two couples (friends) go out for a...

The Comedian Harmonists sing various German folk songs in a picturesque landscape.

A Swedish short film taking us inside Värmdö church for the Christmas holiday.

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

A melodramatic story that takes place in a nostalgic spring day in 1937. A concert of a famous singer on the seafront becomes a tragedy that will...