John Nesbitt Movies

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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 John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from...

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

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

This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century.

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

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...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the...

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...

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

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...

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