John Nesbitt Movies
- 1939
The Story of Dr. Jenner
The Story of Dr. Jenner01939HD
This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.
- 1939
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed41939HD
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he...
- 1942
The Woman in the House
The Woman in the House6.51942HD
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...
- 1941
Your Last Act
Your Last Act61941HD
This short looks at the odd bequests that people have made in their wills over the years. They include a woman who left her fortune to her pet cat...
- 1949
Clues to Adventure
Clues to Adventure61949HD
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...
- 1938
That Mothers Might Live
That Mothers Might Live5.51938HD
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...
- 1942
The Incredible Stranger
The Incredible Stranger6.51942HD
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...
- 1938
The Face Behind the Mask
The Face Behind the Mask5.41938HD
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never...
- 1938
Kentucky
Kentucky5.61938HD
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...
- 1944
Main Street Today
Main Street Today6.71944HD
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...
- 1942
Famous Boners
Famous Boners51942HD
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
- 1939
Angel of Mercy
Angel of Mercy61939HD
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
- 1950
Screen Actors
Screen Actors61950HD
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
- 1946
Magic on a Stick
Magic on a Stick61946HD
This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
- 1946
Our Old Car
Our Old Car41946HD
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man traces his history by the succession of cars his father owned. [This short appears in its entirety...
- 1948
The Fabulous Fraud
The Fabulous Fraud51948HD
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
- 1945
People on Paper
People on Paper61945HD
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...
- 1945
The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan5.51945HD
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...
- 1942
The Magic Alphabet
The Magic Alphabet01942HD
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for...
- 1942
Inflation
Inflation51942HD
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.