04 February 1938 Factual 31 mins
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
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Thomas Chalmers as Narrator (Voice)
Pare Lorentz Writer
Italy 14 August 1938
Portugal 28 April 2009
United States 04 February 1938
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1938:
01 January 1938
Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman.
29 April 1938
The mangiest pup at Pete's Pooch Palace catches the Captain's eye. He takes it home, but Mama is less than thrilled; she forbids it to stay in the house.
07 February 1938
Some cute forest animals get their revenge by fighting a war on some racist hunters.
23 July 1938
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
21 December 1938
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
31 March 1938
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.
16 November 1938
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war.
25 February 1938
The Cabin Kids, in between song and dance numbers, are at the county fair with intentions, fair or foul, of helping Mammy win the Pancakes cooking contest.
25 October 1938
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
03 February 1938
Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto.
08 August 1938
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office.
29 July 1938
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt.
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