1930s Movies

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

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...

Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the...

An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against...

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

A thriller set in 1932 about two nurses trapped in a country mansion with their invalid patient whilst a killer is on the loose. A series of...

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

July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public...

Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative.

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...

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

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

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into...