Cannes 1939

Recorded during the expedition into the Belgian Congo by Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt, this documentary plays up the supposedly savage exoticism of the African natives in contrast to the civilizing imperialism by the Europeans.

A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

A documentary showing the pride France took in its position as an Empire, during the period after the Munich accords when it felt threatened by bullying from Italy and the possibility of war still with Germany.

During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.

Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.

A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.

In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.

Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Together with his best friend and partner in crime Pietje Puk he plans to travel to America to get rich. When a local clergyman takes pity on the boy and tries to teach him good manners, Boefje at first rebels. However, once he is sent to a strict boarding school, he takes an interest in music, specifically the pipe organ.

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.

A mining adventure centered on a courageous engineer and his love.

Architect Sture Ahrengren (Sture Lagerwall) walks out of his job with an architectural firm for several reasons, and with the support of his wife Helena (Signe Hasso). He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg (Stig Järrel), who has a big engineering job going. But Ahrengren gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena (Ilse-Nore Tromm).

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

The Soviet Far East and Manzhou-Go are separated by a border river, on one side of which the Russian White Guards settled in a small Manchurian village, and the Vlasov family lives on the opposite bank. Wishing to destroy the Vlasovs, the White Guards penetrate their house. A group of fighters comes to the aid, led by the commandant of the border section, Captain Tarasov. A long, grueling battle begins.

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.

An example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era.

The Soviet Army, taken by surprise in this imaginary scenario by an attack, immediately routs the invaders and then crosses the border into the enemy territory in hot pursuit, culminating in a military apotheosis.

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.

An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.