Most Viewed Year 1947 - 88

Two reckless villains try to rob a train. Good triumphs over evil, and the mail goes through.

Let’s get this show on the road. The Ministry of the Information, and its peacetime successor the Central Office of Information, weren’t...

Shows how tourists get to the Centre (Central Australia). Includes: Aboriginal rock paintings, the Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, gold crushing...

Mexican movie

A newsreel from the 1940s about the coronation ceremony of the Queen of the Cachimbo, Gloria I, by the vice-rector of the National University of San...

Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who...

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

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...

Another of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the internal combustion engine.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings.

A tribute to The cow that plays like a dairyman’s dream come true. This documentary stresses the importance of milk to the human race by...

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine visits Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a guided tour of the Hamilton Watch Company Factory. The film focuses on the design...

The first issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'Cutter Loader', 'Five Day Week?' and 'The Miner's Song'

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

A survey of the situation in postwar Germany, produced to raise funds in the US. The film is clearly structured: The first part demonstrates the...

The adventures of Constance and Bud Helmericks in Alaska.

Educational short teaching children proper table manners over Thanksgiving dinner