The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour 1938

6.60

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1938

7.12

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

1938

Perky Cockney

Perky Cockney 1938

1

The perky Cockneys are London sparrows, who star in this natural history film.

1938

Boys Town

Boys Town 1938

6.78

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

1938

The Stolen Death

The Stolen Death 1938

6.90

A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman.

1938

Girls' School

Girls' School 1938

6.00

At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.

1938

Slander House

Slander House 1938

3.67

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.

1938

Big Fella

Big Fella 1938

7.00

Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns Gerald escaped of his own will and takes him to stay with a local singer, who offers a refuge from his repressed white parents.

1938

The Citadel

The Citadel 1938

6.44

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

1938

Touchdown, Army

Touchdown, Army 1938

5.00

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

1938

Exposed

Exposed 1938

5.00

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

1938

Mysterious Mr. Moto

Mysterious Mr. Moto 1938

5.98

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

1938

Katia

Katia 1938

9.00

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.

1938

Heartbeat

Heartbeat 1938

6.90

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

1938

Vacances payées

Vacances payées 1938

1

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.

1938

Polar Trappers

Polar Trappers 1938

6.07

Donald and Goofy are trappers in the frozen south (Antarctica) with different approaches. Donald sees a penguin and dresses as one to lure her to the chopping block; Goofy baits a trap with fish (then acts like a walrus to capture one that steals his bait bucket).

1938

Advance Democracy!

Advance Democracy! 1938

1

A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools.

1938

Anna Favetti

Anna Favetti 1938

1

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions.

1938

Wohin?

Wohin? 1938

1

Restaurant, sun and acrobatics to enjoy sunny holidays.

1938

Ann and Harold

Ann and Harold 1938

4.00

Ann and Harold is a very early BBC television programme, and ran for five episodes, all broadcast in 1938. It is known to be the world's first drama serial ever transmitted, and explained the trials of a couple named Ann and Harold respectively, and starred Ann Todd. Little else is known about this programme. No material exists of the show today, as it was aired live before any means of recording programmes existed. In fact, it is unknown if even any photographs survive of this programme.

1938

Telecrime

Telecrime 1938

5.00

Telecrime was a British drama series that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1938 to 1939 and in 1946. One of the first multi-episode drama series ever made, it is also one of the first television dramas written especially for television not adapted from theatre or radio. Having first aired for 5 episodes from 1938 to 1939, Telecrime returned in 1946, following the resumption of television after World War II, and aired as Telecrimes. A whodunit crime drama, Telecrime showed the viewer enough evidence to solve the crime themselves. Most episodes were written by Mileson Horton. All 17 episodes are lost. Aired live, their preservation was not technically possible at the time.

1938