Most Viewed Year 1939 - 101

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and...

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

The making of wrought iron chain at the Netherton Works of N. Hingley & Sons Ltd. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and...

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.

Short subject about futuristic fashion styles.

Little Bo Peep discovers that one of her sheep-students is missing when she counts noses at school. The missing lamb is wandering in the woods and is...