1947 Movies

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

A documentary about how trading goods with the rest of the world works to help the UK economy after WWII.

Three young women navigate modern life in post-World War 2 Shanghai. Directed by Feng Yueh. Starring Hao Wang, Li Hua Li, and Helena Law.

Early film by Kenneth Anger.

Historical sites in Virginia are visited.

The father stands between his only daughter Fayda and the young man who is chasing her. This young man tried to seduce her by making her believe that...

Pig, hippo, and elephant footage strung together with narration. Elephants were included even though they are not related to pigs.

This video is about the four victors of the war in Europe occupying Germany. The video shows a devastated Germany and its clean up. There are Germans...

A cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells...

Kadawunu Poronduwa, was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema. T...

Three songs: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Rock-A-Bye Baby, One More River to Cross, and the piano exercise Chopsticks, illustrated by animated...

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reportin...

This War Department bulletin from 1947 shows captured German V-2 Rockets being tested at White Sands, New Mexico. German scientist Wernher von Braun d...

This short dramatized documentary film, presented by U.S. Army, introduces use of polygraph in investigation. Polygraph is used as a lie detector that...

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...