1930 Movies

With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) is a documentary film about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his 1st quest to the South Pole beginning at the Little America-Exploration Base. The film's soundtrack consists mostly of music and sound effects, with narration r...

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Her father, meanwhile, in an attempt at social climbing, pushes her towards wealthy officer, Franz von Renner.

A cinematic record of Sir Douglas Mawson's BANZ Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1929 to 1931. This film chronicles the crews voyage to chart new territory, documenting their ongoing scientific research, the native wildlife, and the challenges of early 20t...

An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself. This film is the alternate German version of A Lady to Love (1930)

Early German sound film based on the novel "Lord Spleen" by Ludwig von Wohl. Two stowaways attempt to unravel a plot onboard a steam train.

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.

The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

Documentary about the Protestant Church

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.

A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed off one by one by someone who calls himself (or herself) The Green Ghost. The survivors gather at an old mansion to find out who is doing the killing and why...

Judy (Ann Christy),dresses as a boy in order to attend the ceremony where "Cudgie" (Sumner Getchell) is being inducted into a fraternity at the college. The sign over the door at the fraternity has been moved, to fool her, to a building where, unknown to the...

Komsomol member Mansume Musaeva graduates from university and goes to work in the oil industry in Baku with her husband. The couple engage in cultural and educational work among the backward population, especially among women. They are opposed by old oil worke...

This Terrytoon about golfing animals from 1930 is a synchronized sound film, with a decent sound track that could easily be omitted for a show in a theater which had not been wired for sound. There were still several thousand such theaters in the US in 1930.

An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father would prefer her to marry the son of a competitor. So he comes up with the idea of hiring the dashing Heinz to spoil her aristocratic ways. Heinz introduces himself to...

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.