John Nesbitt Movies

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

John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children.

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...

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

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...

The saga of the Normandie is recounted from her life as a luxury liner, the horrific fire that nearly destroyed her, and her resuscitation to join in...

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

A film recreating a broadcast of the Westinghouse Radio Program starring John Charles Thomas and John Nesbitt. Program narrator was Gayne Whitman and...

The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.

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...

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...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...

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...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

This entry in John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series is about the great moments in the lives of famous men who found found an answer or made a great...

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915.

A "Passing Parade" MGM short featuring tennis star Alice Marble

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth...

The "new roadways" of the title refer to various projects, carried out in the USA's research laboratories, that benefit mankind. These include solar...