1949 Movies

This documentary was made by the American Dodge Company in 1948-49 in order to promote the toughness of their trucks to North American, South American...

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film foreshadowed The Ill...

Farm Foolery shows farm animals harvesting crops at harvest time in the fall. The second half of the cartoon includes a sing along of the Tin Pan Alle...

The story of two boys, who enrol in a navy academy for boys.

The first Latin American documentary focused on Indigenous peoples, filmed on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca.

In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insuranc...

Roller Derby Girl is 1949 short documentary directed by Justin Herman about how mid-twentieth century women made advances and careers in roller derby...

Mai Mangwende addresses a group of women in a village and outlines 'what women's clubs were doing to make life better'. Over shots of their work withi...

Highlights from the 1949 Farnborough Air Show.

Katri Vesa, a young woman from Helsinki, has fallen in love with Erkki Kovalinna, an ambitious young official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and...

The centennial of Frederic Chopin’s death was celebrated in 1949. The International Chopin Year was held under the auspice of UNESCO. Tadeusz Makarczy...