John Nesbitt Movies

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz...

Three specific and separate stories of life's passing parade are presented.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

Adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a destitute little girl who sells matches, and uses them to escape the cold on Christmas Eve,...

Highlights a new system that will enable doctors to operate over long distances.

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no...

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...

John Nesbitt takes a look at hobbies in this Passing Parade short.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...

In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep...

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples...

Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.