Browse 1936 Movies

Official Film of the Amateur Swimming Association. An instructional documentary on diving.

A short documentary produced by the French section of the Workers' International.

Probably the most sheerly entertaining of all the films made in 1930s Shanghai by 'underground' leftists, this riff on The Prisoner of Zenda is funny...

Good little girls get good little toys in this nudie short.

Advertising film of the laundry Habsburg with play action

This silent b&w film has intertitles in gothic script (in German). The film features cineradiography of x-rays of eating, drinking and digestion. Soli...

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.

Catapult-wielding democrats take on wader-wearing fascists in this ‘Plas Newydd’ drama filmed by the Marquis of Anglesey. A ‘Plas Newydd’ drama with...

The fourth in a second volume of promotional news real footage produced by Chevrolet. The short touches on a number of subjects in a generally upbeat...

Animated adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's story "How the Whale got his Throat".

This informative short film narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard 'The Glacier Priest' shows in detail the large and lucrative salmon fishing industry in...

A tour of Tunis, Algiers and Rabat in the 1930s.

Pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It appeals to the population to fight against Franco's Nationalist forces.

British documentary.

An extract from 'Mauretania and RMS Queen Mary'. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".