The New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940 promised visitors they would be looking at the "World of Tomorrow." Not everything they saw there came true, but plenty was close. One reason for that was ...

Last Updated on October 6, 2025 by Matt Staff Step into the year 1939, a time when the world balanced between everyday life and the stirrings of immense change. These thirty photographs capture ...

Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights. These are just three of the over seventy features released in 1939, commonly cited as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood." Almost ...

And it's not hard to see why — it's the year that gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Women, Stagecoach, Dark Victory, and so many more. Just one of those ...

On April 27, 1939, the British government announced plans to conscript young men for military training. It was a dramatic departure: Never previously in its modern history had the nation conscripted ...

THERE are any number of theories why 1939, by common consent, is considered the greatest year in Hollywood’s history – with its 70th anniversary is being celebrated by a 39-film retrospective ...

It is often argued that the two best years in cinema were 1939 and 1999. The Academy Awards certainly don't reflect everything done in film for the year before, nor do the Best Picture nominees ...