Movies: 1930s

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Ladies of good families and social standing come to have their afternoon tea with their daughters who will someday follow in the same tradition. A charming portrait of a time that is slowly disappearing....

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Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very critical and later controversial documentary about the living conditions of the poor peasants, abandoned and forgot...

A biopic about star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism and women discrimination in Brazil....

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and faith will win over everyone....

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars....

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is to be sold along Italian records....

Set in the period before the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chinese patriots destroy the Japanese's drug works in Peking....

It is Singapore in the late 1930s. Kai and Fei are childhood friends and aspiring violinists. When Japan invades Malaya in 1941, Kai chooses to forgo his music career to join the anti-Japanese forces. After the war Kai goes missing. Determined to fin...

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss....

When an innocent man is captured by a mad scientist, he is used as a tragic experiment being transformed into a hideous monster and released into the wild....

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In the mid 1930s, a mobster breaks out of jail, causing his boss to hire one of his hitmen, so the escaped convict doesn't rat them out. Until something terrifying is revealed and gets in between the hitman and his the crime he's about to commit....

The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne in Victoria. It shows the city’s architectural highlights and public buildings along with its famous parks and gardens....

Paris of the 1930s, in the world of little rascals. Loulou gus is in the shade. To get a clean crust, it needs sorrel, fuzzy, dough. Especially since he owes a package to Pierrot's band that is close to making his skin. But Loulou is madly stiff. Lu...

Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal legislation designed to overcome it. Emphasizes events that had lasting effects on the nation, such ...