John Nesbitt Movies

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

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of...

This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an...

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...

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

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,...

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

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...

This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

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,...

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the...

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

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

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...

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

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