City of Children

Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the...

A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storm...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children....

From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources...

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

Eighteen months in the life of 89 years old Viola Dees as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorit...

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant thing...

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

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knock...

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King...

This short film focuses on the mysterious and legendary Seri Indians who live in a utopian colony of...

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspir...

In this somewhat whitewashed documentary on Manhattan's Bowery a newcomer to the area takes his firs...

This moving documentary profiles a former Buddhist monk who runs a home for orphaned children in the...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...

Second Chance tells a story of Ukrainian orphaned children and the Canadian volunteers who spend the...