1949 Movies

India has finally won independence from British rule, and there are signs of progress among the population. One such sign of progress is in the villag...

Aviation holiday in Tushino - July 17, 1949.

A film on soil conservation, showing problems facing farmers in different areas of Canada. Many scenes of soil eroded, gouged and leached out by water...

A tiny Quebec community is thrown into an uproar when a tall young Texan named Bill arrives to claim a farm he has inherited. Bill's inability to spea...

Venice Film Festival 1949

Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.

Anne Treibel owns a small house that is home to four women and one man, Martin, a badly injured war veteran. All the women are interested in Martin, b...

Fido, a dumb-but-faithful dog, agrees to kitten-sit while Mother Cat is out of the house but she is barely gone before the high-strung kittens lead po...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 January 1949.

A man and his wife, who worked as a teacher, were framed and the man died in a fire, while the woman was forced to throw herself into a well. After hi...

With a help of good nature a young brave girl goes to the dark forest for saving her youngest brother abducted by Baba Yaga.

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as custome...

Demonstrating hydrographic surveying techniques

"They’re not so very different from our own people, are they?" A sensitive depiction of European workers in the UK.

In a relaxed and conversational style, famed writer of uncanny and fantastical fiction Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) retells his story of the old lad...

Hilal tries to steal the wealth of his cousin, the Upper Egyptian girl, but she succeeds in confronting him, so he tries to take revenge on her by kil...