John Nesbitt Movies

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

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

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

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

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,...

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

This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.

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

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

In this somewhat whitewashed documentary on Manhattan's Bowery a newcomer to the area takes his first step toward redemption after a meal, bed, and...

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...

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 tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

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

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...

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art 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...