John Nesbitt Movies

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

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...

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

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,...

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

This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

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

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

This short tells the story of Norwegian explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). After a life of adventure, he was instrumental in...

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the...

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...