1948 Movies

Millions of years scroll by in 10 minutes, illustrated by ingenious designers: this is the geological history of Canada.

This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially the...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 14 June 1948.

Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older brot...

A short film by Roger Blais.

Shows many accidents on a farm, and describes how they can be prevented. Joe the Special in-the-meantime agent magically appears and tells a farmer ab...

Festivities marking the 4th centenary of the founding of La Paz.

An abstract cartoon built over Bernhard Christensen's music. It is the first of its kind in Denmark, as it is drawn directly on film stock.

This late 1940s film pays tribute to Manolete, one of the great Spanish bullfighters and one whose death after being gored in 1947 remains as one of t...

Snow Capers is a 1948 short documentary film about winter sports in the Rocky Mountains directed by Arthur Cohen. It was nominated for an Oscar for Sh...

Showcases the government's initial achievements in the Operation Bootstrap project.

Waverley Steps - subtitled ‘a visit to Edinburgh’ - is an evocative minor classic. John Eldridge’s film takes the semi-documentary form of a collage o...

Experimental film using animation and live action, set to music.

In this, Poland's last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of c...

A short in the Memories From Melody Lane series. This dramatization of Stephen Foster's life shows how the songwriter came to write four of his most p...

Milan leaves his home and joins the "youth brigade", a group of young people who worked on a railway track. Tragedy strikes when Milan is injured oper...