Most Viewed Year 1941 - 88

A Soundie short singing the song "Kisses to You".

Marvels of modern science, including the U.S. Army's latest tanks; pretty models demonstrate massage and exercise machines.

A Soundie with The Landy Trio.

When a RAF plane is downed, the combined forces of the air and sea arms spring into action to rescue him, which mostly seems to consist of men in...

Sugiati loves all of her children, Achmad, Idris, Sumadi and Supinah. Sumadi receives the most attention as Subagio, his father, often blames him....

A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

Dorothy Dandridge performing "Easy Street".

Produced by Official Films and titled "When The Circus Comes to Town, featuring the Kidoodlers singing a song.

Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. He lives as an indentured child labourer at his dictatorial aunt’s remote guesthouse. The...

Arne Sucksdorff’s first film for Svensk Filmindustri, this lyrical short follows a fox cub through his playful explorations and predatory...

The Two Curious Puppies chase after a bone in the snow-bound wilderness, contending with dam-building beavers and treacherous thin ice.

Gandy Goose, dreaming, is taken across the Atlantic ocean to a fairy-tale Erie, where flowers dance and then turn into geese; elves warble Irish...

This Ministry of Information film does ‘what it says on the tin’. It is a straightforward, ‘no frills’ demonstration of how...

A call to sort and recycle waste. Produced by a request from the Federal Office of the War and Labour Industry and the Waste Management Office....

Finnish Winter War, conclusion of the armistice.

Filmed after the start of the blitz, but with little visual reference to this, 'City Bound' is an exploration of the daily commute into London from...

Willie Howard is a guard on sentry duty sent to the mess hall where pretty girls are present to entertain the troops in this soundie.

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film...

This Traveltalk series short spotlights the natural beauty of the Northwestern United States. Our first stop is Mount Saint Helen's and Spirit Lake...