All Films

Seventh Column

1943 • 9 min • United States of America

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

1943 • 42 min • United States of America

The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.

To My Unborn Son

1943 • 9 min • United States of America

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, explaining what he was fighting for in resisting the Nazi invasion of his homeland. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short.

Taxi, Mister

1943 • 46 min • United States of America

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

Truck Busters

1943 • 58 min • United States of America

An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands

Fighting Frontier

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched.

Thundering Trails

1943 • 60 min • United States of America

In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.

Storm

1943 • 8 min • United States of America

A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to lessen their impact, storms have to run their course, and there is really not much we can do about them.

Blazing Frontier

1943 • 59 min • United States of America

A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.

December 7th

1943 • 32 min • United States of America

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Western Cyclone

1943 • 60 min • United States of America

Billy the Kid is framed for murder.

Seeing Hands

1943 • 11 min • United States of America

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.

Deadlock

1943 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.

Border Buckaroos

1943 • 53 min • United States of America

Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele, and Panhandle Perkins are en route to Boulder City to investigate the murder of rancher Dan Clark when they happen upon Trigger Farley, a gunslinger hired by Cole Melford, the chief suspects in Clark's murder.

Heavenly Music

1943 • 22 min • United States of America

Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.

First Aid

1943 • 11 min • United States of America

This short film is a humorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house.

Wedtime Stories

1943 • 17 min • United States of America

Two Leon Errols, father and son, both get married without telling the other and end up at the same Niagara Falls hotel on their respective honeymoons.

False Faces

1943 • 58 min • United States of America

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.

California Joe

1943 • 55 min • United States of America

During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.

Cattle Stampede

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed. The latter tells them there is a range war in progress across the border and that he is looking for men to help make a cattle drive to the rail junction.

Tiger Fangs

1943 • 59 min • United States of America

A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.

Hop, Skip and a Chump

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

A grasshopper toys with two crows trying to catch him.

Little Belgium

1942 • 10 min • Belgium, United Kingdom

A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.

Bicycle Polo at San Mateo

1942 • 5 min • United States of America

"Bicycle Polo at San Mateo features the Stauffacher brothers, Frank and Jack, and others playing the lost sport of bicycle polo on the lawn of San Mateo Park. The film reveals a profound sense of place that would permeate Stauffacher’s later experimental films” -Dominic Angerame.