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1. Remember? (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A jilted man gives his divorced best friend and his ex-wife - to whom he was previously engaged - a potion that causes them to forget each other. Will they fall in love all over again?
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke
Votes: 610
2. Eternally Yours (1939)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke
Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.18M
3. Roughly Speaking (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan
Votes: 880
4. Aalto: Architect of Emotions (2020)
103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife... See full summary »
Director: Virpi Suutari | Stars: Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Elissa Aalto, David N. Fixler
Votes: 706
5. Land of Liberty (1939)
Approved | 138 min | History
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gayne Whitman, Erville Alderson, Don Ameche, Heather Angel
Votes: 353
6. In Tune with Tomorrow (1939)
15 min | Animation, Short
Through stop motion, a car is built piece-by-piece in 3-D with the added enhancement of music and sound effects. Each part becomes "alive" and has its own distinct characteristics. Originally made for the 1939 World's Fair.
Director: John Norling | Star: Edward Bowes
Votes: 12
7. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid
Votes: 1,330
8. Mickey's Surprise Party (1939)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Minnie is baking cookies. When she leaves for a short while, her dog Fifi accidentally drops popcorn kernels in the dough. Mickey and Pluto come over and visit with Minnie and Fifi. When ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton Luske | Stars: Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Clarence Nash
Votes: 378
9. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
Approved | 55 min | Drama
The Middleton family visits the 1939 New York World's Fair and witnesses the advent of the future, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Director: Robert R. Snody | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee, Harry Shannon
Votes: 200
10. Thanks for Everything (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 60
11. Crazy Cruise (1942)
TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A travelogue, stopping in a southern tobacco plantation, the Swiss Alps, Egypt, Central Europe, Africa, and others, long enough for one joke per location. Bugs Bunny makes only a cameo appearance at the end.
Directors: Tex Avery, Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 341
12. Land of the Midnight Fun (1939)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 160
13. The World of Tomorrow (1984)
83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Directors: Lance Bird, Tom Johnson | Stars: Jason Robards, Adora Andrews, King George VI, Fiorello LaGuardia
Votes: 77
14. Billy Mouse's Akwakade (1940)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The title is a take-off parody of Billy Rose's Aquacade, and uses an ordinary bathtub, as aqua-mice perform aquatic ballet dances and water sports. The soap bubbles float downstairs to ... See full summary »
Director: Eddie Donnelly
Votes: 45
15. New Dimensions (1940)
15 min | Animation, Short
Stop motion animation on how a car is assembled "by itself".
Director: John Norling
Votes: 22
16. Cinerama Adventure (2002)
97 min | Documentary
A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual ... See full summary »
Director: David Strohmaier | Stars: Lowell Thomas, Fred Waller, Jim Morrison, Rudy Behlmer
Votes: 353
17. Around the World of Mike Todd (1967 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd,s career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous behind-the-scenes footage from the film.
Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: Orson Welles, Martin Balsam, Elizabeth Taylor, David Todd
Votes: 59
18. Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days, Version 1 (1983 Music Video)
4 min | Music
The first version of the video, directed by Derek Jarman, is a collection of home movies with the majority of the archive footage consisting of a stage show with swimmers and fountains, and... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Darren Costin, Nick Feldman, Jack Hues, Derek Jarman
Votes: 34
19. Westinghouse (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Westinghouse is a feature-length documentary about the life and times of George Westinghouse, his companies, legacy, personality, partnership with Nikola Tesla and conflict with Thomas Edison.
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: David Cope, Joseph G. Deley, Thomas A. Edison, Carol Lee Espy
Votes: 80
20. Young as You Feel (1940)
60 min | Comedy
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Joan Valerie, Russell Gleason
Votes: 35
21. The City (I) (1939)
43 min | Documentary, Short
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
Directors: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke | Star: Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 369
22. Should Husbands Work? (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport
Votes: 15
23. Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (1939)
11 min | Short, History
Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Clem Bevans, Joe Devlin, Robert Dudley
Votes: 72
24. Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939)
Approved | 25 min | Animation, Short, Family
Pete illustrates the many uses of oil in daily life, showing that the world depends on it.
Director: Joseph Losey | Star: Charles R. Bowers
Votes: 119
25. RCA Television Exhibit at New York Worlds Fair (1939 TV Movie)
Family
Stars: Virginia Hare, Theresa Harris, Gladys LaVance, Muriel Robert
26. The World of Tomorrow (1939)
9 min | Documentary, Short
RKO Pathé Reelisms tour of the New York World's Fair.
Director: Frederic Ullman Jr. | Star: André Baruch
27. I'll Tell the World (1939)
Approved | 40 min | Short, Family
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication. It tells a ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Jed Prouty, Patricia Murray, Frank Albertson, Billy Mauch
28. Let My People Live (1939)
14 min | Documentary, Short
The lives of African-American siblings George and Mary are altered when she gets sick with tuberculosis. Mary disregards any advice about home remedies and goes to a doctor, and both she ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Rex Ingram, Peggy Howard, Merritt Smith, Erostine Coles
Votes: 12
29. To New Horizons (1940)
23 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A short film made for the General Motors Corp. to showcase its "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. The exhibit's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion imagines what it would... See full summary »
Star: Vincent Pelletier
Votes: 38
30. I Have Seen the Future (2010 Video)
35 min | Documentary, Short, Family
How the economic crisis of 2009 really began in 1939... Film builds a conspiracy theory of how the auto, tire and oil industries united and pitched a willing American public on the idea of ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Seidenberg
31. Refreshment Through the Years (1939)
21 min | Documentary, Short
A corporate history of the Coca-Cola Company.
Director: Cullen Landis | Star: Ken Carpenter
33. World's Fair Beauty Show (1939 TV Special)
75 min
Contest for The New York World's Fair Television Girl, the first televised beauty contest.
Director: Ed Sobol | Stars: Ernest Chappell, Jack Frazier
34. Television (1939)
9 min | Short, Documentary
One of many "Reelisms" shorts produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. and Frank Donovan for RKO in the late-30's on various subjects, this is a clinical look at the inner-workings of television, ... See full summary »
Director: Frederic Ullman Jr. | Star: André Baruch
Votes: 13
35. Medicus Film of New York World's Fair (1940)
Documentary
Stars: Buster Crabbe, Morton Downey, Glen Gray, Eleanor Holm
36. Wonder Bakers at the World's Fair (1939)
4 min | Animation, Short
Director: Ted Eshbaugh
Votes: 17
37. New York World's Fair, 1939 Vol. 1 (1939)
33 min | Documentary, Short
New York Fair in 1939 was the most expansive worlds fair throughout our worlds history. Many nations participated, contributing to the world fair in which the core purpose was to show the ... See full summary »
38. I Have Seen the Future: A Tour of the 1939 New York World's Fair (2017)
46 min | Documentary, History, Music | Completed
I Have Seen The Future is an experimental documentary that guides you on a musical journey through time and space to explore the 1939 New York World's Fair. Comprised entirely of color film... See full summary »
Director: Darby Cicci
39. World Fair (2013)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
WORLD FAIR is a short documentary that explores personal memory and amateur cinematography through a singular, spectacular event: the 1939 New York World's Fair. On the heels of the Great ... See full summary »
Director: Amanda Murray
Votes: 8
41. A Cavalcade of Texas (1939)
49 min | Documentary
Director: James A. FitzPatrick | Star: James A. FitzPatrick
42. Mr. Peanut and His Family Tree (1939)
3 min | Animation, Short
The history of the peanut.
Director: Ted Eshbaugh
43.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Odyssey of Flight 33
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Passing through the sound barrier, a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Wayne Heffley
Votes: 3,318
44.
Pinky and the Brain (1995–1998)
Episode:
Mice Don't Dance/Brain Drained
(1997)
TV-Y | 21 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In the 1930s, The Brain notes the popularity of tap dance and constructs a pair of steam-powered legs to send a subtle Morse code message of world domination. Bereft of ideas to take over ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Calabrese | Stars: Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, John Astin, Dorian Harewood
Votes: 102
45.
Project Twenty (1954–1970)
Episode:
Life in the Thirties
(1959)
Documentary
Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II.
Director: Donald B. Hyatt | Stars: Alexander Scourby, Robert Benchley, Adolf A. Berle, Father Coughlin
Votes: 10
46.
People's Century: 1900-1999 (1995– )
Episode:
Picture Power
(1996)
Not Rated | Documentary
Television unexpectedly transforms society, culture, and politics.
Star: Sean Barrett
47.
The Great Depression (1993– )
Episode:
Arsenal of Democracy
(1993)
Documentary, History
By 1939 Americans were still struggling to end the Great Depression. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebrated at World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco. However, prosperity... See full summary »
Director: Susan Bellows | Star: Joe Morton
48.
Stories from the Vaults (2007– )
Episode:
Crystal Ball
(2009)
TV-G | 27 min | History
Tom taps into the Smithsonian's vaults and labs to gaze into the future...as we envisioned it in the 1930s and as we look forward today. First Tom visits the Cooper Hewitt National Design ... See full summary »
49.
Gadget Boy's Adventures in History (1997– )
Episode:
All's Fair at the World's Fair
(1997)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Gadget Boy's very existence is in jeopardy as Spydra goes to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City to destroy the first prototype robots ever made.
Directors: Pascal Morelli, Charlie Sansonetti
50.
Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode:
Humanity
(2011)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Team is on the hunt for Red Tornado, and their friend Zatanna wants to come along for the ride.
Director: Matt Youngberg | Stars: Stephanie Lemelin, Jesse McCartney, Danica McKellar, Nolan North
Votes: 3,141