1946 Movies

A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer.

A story centered on a village girl named Alka, whose character exhibits contradictory traits and possibly a violent nature. Her life intersects with other village inhabitants, including Nanda, and a figure described as a "ruthless dacoit" who undergoes a trans...

Youth work actions in Slovenia within the first few years after liberation.

Traces the development of the animated cartoon from a 19th-century children's toy to modern Disney cartoons. Includes a complete animated show as it would have looked in the 1890s.

This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.

Another one of the many "voice-only" Movietone shorts and/or newsreels in which radio actor and sportscaster Paul Douglas toiled for a decade before getting his break-out role in 1949's "A Letter to Three Wives." Douglas did most of these displaying the wrynes...

This edition of the March of Time series (Volume 12, Number 11) deals with the growing problem of alcoholism ins the USA. It emphasizes that alcoholics are not bad people but have an addiction which is beyond their control. It shows the work going on at Yale U...

The cartoon is believed to be a propaganda film by Stokely Van Camp beans against Heinz. There is a strong reference to Heinz in the beginning of the film as, "that British [UK] brand." As well as how unknown, unpopular, and not as strong if a product as Van C...

A rare document of Singapore cinema, Spirit of the Overseas Chinese was made by pioneering female Chinese filmmaker Wan Hoi-Ling, who had directed films in Singapore for the Shaw Brothers. Her partner Hou Yao, who tragically died during the war, collaborated w...

The film revolves around a young musician who decides to pursue a career in art against his father's wishes, who throws him out of his home. The son decides to fight for his dream and meets a dancer in the nightclub where he works, and they fall in love. Howev...

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

A composer can only get his music performed when it is believed to be by Tchaikovsky.

Public health film, warning of the dangers of this airborne disease through sneezing.

The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a rampage about it. Things look dark indeed for the settlers when the likes of Buffalo Bill, General Custer and Da...

Rare insight into the health work of Methodist missionaries in rural Shaoyang, Hunan Province, South Central China.

The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera.

The document illustrates the reconstruction and modernization of Polish villages after the destruction during World War II.

Lulu answers wrong on a history quiz after cheating off of Tubby. While sitting in the corner and wearing a dunce cap Lulu falls asleep and dreams of chasing Tubby through history to get back at him.

Filmmaker Francis Lee described his impulse to create this stop-motion film short: "When I made this film I had some feelings about the trials and tribulations of the poet in our society."