1930s Movies

Biography of Karel Čapek.

An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist...

This Traveltalks short showcases the Paris International Exposition of 1937. It features a tour of the pavillions of several nations, as well as the...

A thriller set in 1932 about two nurses trapped in a country mansion with their invalid patient whilst a killer is on the loose. A series of...

In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.

This production of Ostrava TV Studios was inspired by actual events which occurred in the Ostrava region of Moravia during the 1920s and 1930s. A...

A young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.

Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodomor, and one Welshman's attempts to tell the...

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral conditions in a Slovak village...

The story takes place in Prague in the 1930s. An old trickster watchmaker named Sakař fakes an illness to get into the hospital. A young doctor...

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

An anti-fascist story of village children, set in 1939 in Slovakia.

Klettern im Fels (in English, "Rock Climbing") is a German silent documentary about rock climbing. It was directed by the cameraman Hermann Schadock...