John Nesbitt Movies

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

The story of Carlo Pozzo di Borgo, a boyhood friend of Napoleon Bonaparte's who later turned against him.

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...

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...

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...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

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

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...

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...

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

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...