1947 Movies

Takes students to England to show them the land that inspired many great writers... the London of Chaucer, Dickens and Browning...the countryside whic...

This RKO short, part of the "This is America" series, details (as much as possible in a 20-minute short) the transformation, following World War II, o...

Jail Yatra is an Indian Hindi-language drama film released in 1947. It was directed by Gajanan Jagirdar.

A day of tuna sport fishing at Wedgeport, NS

This travelogue of Costa Rica, the second smallest of the American republics, starts at San Jose Airport. Transportation is key within the country, bo...

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

One of the earliest Iraqi films, the plot revolves around a young Iraqi man working as a writer who flees to Cairo after being accused of murdering hi...

A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides, that includes documentary footage to add to the sense of realism. A wo...

Information film about the tuberculosis study in Copenhagen. The film effectively polemicizes against the widespread but erroneous notion that the dis...

Ott shot his time-lapse plant footage in his Winnetka greenhouse. He installed automatic temperature, humidity, and irrigation systems to help with gr...

A ghost town merchant is tried for the murder of his brother. What's the locale's secret that people are being bumped off over?

Rome in the postwar period, marked by the Holocaust.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

This short black and white film takes a look at the daily life and work of North Queensland sugarcane cutters. Five million tons of sugarcane (1016 k...

Marouf, the cobbler, lives in Isfahan. He marries an awful woman so he decides to escape. When his ship is wrecked by a storm, he finds himself on an...

Film illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive. These include shaping the transport system by collating numbers of...

The movie revolves around a young mischievous boy named Mirza who is sent away to his uncle's home for further studies. Mirza is passionate about arch...